A suprisingly decent Mars image!

[Pete Presland]

Some reasonable seeing and excellent altitude, compared to last summer, resulted in my best Mars image for quite a while.

Considering how far away Mars now is, I am delighted to see some decent surface detail visible.

The usual set up, C9.25, Asi290mm and a 742 Proplanet filter. I did try the Asi224mc, but the view looked pretty poor.

[Davey-T]

That's pretty amazing Pete, well done, I gave up on it long ago, when it was closer it was behind trees then higher into S.London light pollution.

Dave

[Pete Presland]

20 minutes ago, Davey-T said:

That's pretty amazing Pete, well done, I gave up on it long ago, when it was closer it was behind trees then higher into S.London light pollution.

Dave

It was only a lack of targets that made have another go this year to be honest.

[Ibbo!]

That came out very well.

[Pig]

Nice one Pete, I thought the same whilst observing mars two nights ago. It looked surprisingly clear ?

[orion25]

Good show, Pete. You got some good detail there. I think I've finally stopped trying to image Mars now as I seem to get diminishing returns. I'll just enjoy observing it for now, lol.

Reggie

[geoflewis]

That's excellent Pete, I gave up on Mars months ago and not sure how much if any planetary imaging I'll do this year with Saturn and Jupiter so low. I'll probably take a look, but think that I will mainly focus on some summer DSOs this year as I haven't imaged those for a while with the scope dedicated to the planets the last couple of summers.

Geof

[astroavani]

Very good Pete, if you consider the low height and the distance we can say that is a great result. ASI 290 for planets is a bit better than 224 in my opinion, even more so with such a small target.

[Ruud]

That's a great view! Even at this enormous distance Mars continuous to show its handsome features.  The perceptual phase is a big bonus. 

Altogether an excellent image. Congratulations!