Tiny Mars

[Stub Mandrel]

I found a version of Mars  I took with my Bridge camera on 6 June 16 at about 22:30, each sub doesn't look much but I stacked lots of them. I am sorting through old pictures (to avoid cloud fever) and wondered if the pattern is real or not. Here's the stacked image (bear in mind this is from jpegs out of a bridge camera with built in zoom, albeit 1000mm equivalent) and Stellariums pic of mars for the same date and time.

What do you think?

 

[Kropster]

I looks like the real thing......right colours and pattern looks just what you would expect.

Quite a result given the gear.

[orion25]

Looks about right; not bad considering what you were using at the time. Is this a cropped image? Could you post the full-size?

Regards,

Reggie

[Stub Mandrel]

8 hours ago, orion25 said:

Could you post the full-size?

Here's a single sub (the image above was dithered in AS2!)...

Saturn from the same night, even more subs (50)

<Edit> Interesting some of the single Mars subs look more like the stellarium pic!

[orion25]

Oh, wow! Thanks Neil. You did a really GREAT job with that camera!

[Stub Mandrel]

It's how I got into this lark - I got some recognisable images of Saturn in 2014/5, but I went back to the planets last year to see if I had learned anything! there were a few things I could change like turning anti-vibration off, getting exposure right and mostly getting the focus right (it has optional manual focus and exposure/aperture). I suppose teh mnarks on Mars are similar in size to saturn's rings, just not as sharp edges so I shouldn't be surprised it came out, but I am!

[Pete Presland]

Very impressive considering its size.