Mars with new scope 5th August UK

[Magnum]

First image with my new Dome & Scope. Mars at 00:21 with my 12" LX200GPS at f20 working at a focal length of about 6.1 metres with  Altair GPCam2 IMX224,

seeing was quite poor due to its low altitude, even though it was a nearly perfect night.

Lee

[Rob]

Very nice!. And I was observing on the 5th at this time.. so its like you imaged it at the right time for me! .

Good Stuff

Rob

[Magnum]

whoops i messed up the date , is this last capture of the night  was 00:21 so was technically the 6th LOL

[morimarty]

A lovely Mars image your Lx200gps is working very well?

[paulastro]

Excellent image Lee.  Pleased to see it as I too was observing around that time, around an hour before.  Using a 152mm 4.8 David Levy Mak-Newt it is similar to what I had observed - at least when I had managed to convert your orientation to that of my Newtonian focus! 

[astroman001]

A very good result, well done.  You have achieved a good colour result with showing the major features well.

Peter

[Magnum]

Thanks all

[orion25]

Cracking image, Magnum!

[chiltonstar]

A very nice image! Interesting that the N Polar Cap comes out as white, despite the thickness of reddish dust that any feature of the circumference of Mars such as the poles must have been filtered through??

Chris

[Magnum]

Chris the recent dust storm has now died down, a couple of weeks ago the pole was indeed filtered by the dust and off white / reddish in colour as well as most surface features being obscured, but in the last week the features have gradually been reappearing and the night i took this the atmosphere was almost back to its normal transparency.

 

Lee

[Pete Presland]

Lovely image.

[Quaternion]

Wow.  That is awesome !!!