Mars, Oct 11, good seeing

[Starman]

Misty but clear this morning with not a breath of wind. Seeing was reasonably good but the transparency wasn't fantastic. Here's my first result of the session showing quite a bit of detail. The "V" shaped Syrtis Major is showing some nice structure and the two "prongs" of the Sinus Gomer are easily seen to the left. In the mists of the North Polar Hood (just below and to the left of the bottom of the tip of the Syrtis Major) you can see Utopia poking through.

[Saso]

Fantastic image. So much details. Well done. :shock:

Saso

[SteelRat]

Nice Pete 8) Real nice.

[themos]

Amazing. That is your best yet. I would have put money down that the thick mist of last night would have scuppered any attempts and yet (some) imagers just plough through it...Shows how much I still have to learn.

[GazOC]

Yep, the best one I've seen so far this year Pete. Great shot.

[jonifive]

Great image Pete, its getting clearer everytime!

JV

[Trevor]

Lovely shots Pete, that light bucket sure does make a difference.

How’s the animation going?

[Starman]

Thanks for the great SGL comments as usual

The animation got to the final colour version but I wasn't happy with the way the colour balance changes between frames. Mars is a pig to get the colour right and I'm going to have to re-do from the bottom up to get things working better. The problem stems from the first frame which was recovered from a JPG capture session and isn't as good as the other two. I'll get there eventually...

[Jaffa007]

Fantastic Images....... as usual :lol:

No, seriously, fantastic!

James

[lunator]

Pete

great pic.

The level of detail is excellent

Cheers

Ian

[maroon bells]

Wow, they get better every week. I remember seeing Mars at the last opposition and realising it is a very difficult target.

Matthew

[dweller25]

Wow :shock:

[Trevor]

Pete

f/67 must be the exact focal length? how is this worked out please.

I notice you have changed from f/55

Trev.

[Starman]

Hi Trevor,

You can work out the f-ratio used by the simple equation

F = (206.265 * Dp * Ps) / Pd

Here, Dp = diameter of the planet in pixels as measured off a capture frame

Ps = your camera's pixel size in microns

Pd = the Planets diameter in arcseconds

[centroid]

Good seing and transparency indeed, and the results show it!!

About as good a detail as it gets Pete.

Nice!!!

Dave

[saturn5]

Amazing detail(said in an envious tone)just pure dead brilliant btw :notworthy:

[barkis]

Pete, I keep saying to myself, "Surely this man must reach a saturation point." But you don't. These images you create just keep getting jaw gapingly better. I apologize for the word that probably is not in the dictionary.

I shudder to think what you will do with mars at opposition. Someone save me the job of looking up it's diameter at that point please.

Ron.

[mik]

Wow 8) 8)

Mick.

[Vega]

OMG Pete... You Da Planet King. Imagine the same setup on the 2003 opposition :shock:

Vega