The planet Mars imaged on April 13, 2012 from the Victoria Centre Observatory along with a screen shot from Starry Night for comparison.
Details
Time 9:24Pm PDT.
Clear evening with no wind, good seeing and temperature of 8 deg C.
14" SCT with Powermate 2.5x barlow and Canon T3i camera operating in video crop mode for an effective focal ratio of f/25.
Used 40% of 2485 frames taken at ISO 6400 and1/1250 sec exposure.
Video converted to avi format, then graded, aligned and stacked in Registax 6. Additional processing in Images Plus and Photoshop.