Tiny Mars, Saturn surface activity burst...

[Kokatha man]

Hi folks - I haven't posted on SGL for quite some time and it is indeed very late in both the Mars & Saturn apparitions - but imaging from home between the 21st & 28th August we captured quite a deal of surface activity (weather) on Saturn's disk in the form of dark spots (anti-cyclones) and bright spots. (cyclones)

This followed on from some other images earlier in August.....I suspect it is a "seasonal" thing in that images of much higher resolution taken by us earlier in the apparition were mainly devoid of any disk detail.

Mars has been very difficult to image for quite some time, mainly due to the weather/seeing so it was nice to get a half-reasonable outcome on the 28th August of this shrinking world as it spins away from Earth...the Hellas basin shows up well in said image.

Here it is along with various Saturn images, plain & annotated for better identification of those "spots" as well as simple 2-frame animations which help with the finer details: we're pleased to be able to record these so late in the season as these are what the organisations we send them to are mainly interested in for plotting & tracking over time...

[rwilkey]

Brilliant photos, well done!

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Lovely images, great work as ever

[baggywrinkle]

Great stuff...

[C7tsj]

Fantastic images!

[Space Cowboy]

Remarkable images for so late in the season Darryl!

[Grotemobile]

Wow,the detail you have got on Mars,

& Saturn. Amazing.One of the best ones

I have seen.

Steve

[simmo39]

Brill pics.

[Kokatha man]

Thanks fellas, it really is surprising being so late in the apparition - Mars has flown back up the sky way above Saturn now in the early evening but of course is getting very small.

[Pete Presland]

fantastic images considering where they are located in the sky!

[PeterCPC]

Lovely images.

Peter

[NorrinRadd]

That's a fantastic set of very accurate , detailed , natural looking and extremely well done and fascinating images. The spot is brilliant and to track it so precisely means your imaging and processing has been bang on. Thanks for sharing. Brilliant :-)

[neil phillips]

Some nice subtle detail coming through on Saturn Darryl.

[si@nite]

A great set of images Darryl , i think i commented on cn, but did not see that stunning mars shot!

[Kokatha man]

Thank you fellas also - you're most kind!

Simon, these are new image sets to the one you kindly commented upon in CN recently.....those former images were taken during our travels in early August but this lot were captured from home at the end of August - after 2 months of nothing August smiled upon us as far as seeing conditions had previously been!

[Kbramley]

Very nicely done,  the detail on both is  incredible  and the colour balance is  spot on.

[Kokatha man]

Thanks!

[Blazar]

Nice work...as ever ;-)

[laudropb]

Brilliant images. Well done

[Kokatha man]

Thanks!

[Guest]

Holy bananas! Those images are amazing! Congratulations!

[Kokatha man]

Thanks - appreciate the compliment!

[Twisted Lip]

I have to admit those pictures are very special, I like them a lot. Fantastic!

Cheers

Will

[cutepetgroomer]

Excellent work!! They have a feel of being a painting of sorts almost (very cool) I'm curious to know what equipment was used

[astroman001]

Great work.

Best wishes

Peter