Mars

[mwayne]

29 June 2018, 1028UT.  North on top. Surprised to see any detail showing through the dust storm.

And still working on settings for capture, the histogram showed a much higher level for blue than the two other colors. Is this normal for Mars? Thanks.

[Ags]

All those clouds on Mars... Have they been taking any deliveries from FLO?

[Knighty2112]

Nice work. Well done!  Hoping to image Mars for the first time at some point this weekend. 

[Rob]

Wow those dust storms are taking their toll... just hope they start to settle by 27th July!!

[cuivenion]

Nice image. Mars colour balance can be tricky. I run my capture video through PIPP with the settings for planetary, but I also tick Equalise R, G and B Channels  Individually  and Stretch Histogram White Point Too (65%), under the Histogram Equalisation section:

https://sites.google.com/site/astropipp/pipp-manual/processing-options

That makes the auto colour balance in Registax work much better. Depending on the brightness of your capture you might need to choose a different percentage for Strech Histogram White Point.

 

[Stub Mandrel]

LOL! I'm here staring at my own virtually featureless orange disc.