Mars - 1 Dec 2022

[geoflewis]

This is an image of Mars comprising 4x6 min SERs each separately processed for best 30% in AS3!, followed by wavelets, RGB align and RGB balance in Registax, then de-rotated and stacked in WinJupos.

The data was captured immediately prior to the images from 2 Dec 2022, previously posted here. The main difference is that these images were captured without including the Baader barlow lens which I added later. My initial impression was that the data without the barlow was much inferior than with, but after taking my time to carefully process the SERs, I am pleasntly surprised at the quality obtained. For those interested in seeing the invidual files before taken into WinJupos they are here.

 

[Kon]

Excellent image Geof. Very nice detials. It seems the north polar cap is keep shrinking.

[geoflewis]

Thanks Kostas, this is from the same session last week on night of 1-2 Dec, but I only just got around to procesing them. I think more of the polar hood rotated into view later in the session, so it seems smaller in this view, but yes, it does appear to be shrinking.

[RobertI]

Top notch image. 👍

[yelsac]

Absolutely Love the fine detail, really nice image.

Ps hope you & your family feel better 👍

[geoflewis]

1 hour ago, RobertI said:

Top notch image. 👍

Thanks Rob

[geoflewis]

1 hour ago, yelsac said:

Absolutely Love the fine detail, really nice image.

Ps hope you & your family feel better 👍

Thanks. We’re struggling through a day at a time, but it’s a nasty one for sure. We’re so glad that we had the autumn booster jabs a few weeks ago, as I suspect we’d both be a lot worse otherwise. It’s not looking good for me to get up at 4am tomorrow for the Mars occultation, though I’m still going to set the alarm 🙄🤔