Martian cloud, early morning Jan7th

[Starman]

On a very cold morning on Jan 7th, the seeing was slightly better than average. Not wanting to hang around too long in the cold (even though I did in the end and ended up going to bed at 05:15!) I decided to do IR and blue imaging on this occasion with the green channel being synthesised. The end result over-emphasises the albedo features and I think loses some of the fine detail in the lighter regions. However, on the plus side it does allow for longer runs per channel without motion blur becoming an issue. The orographic cloud over Elysium Mons can be seen quite clearly in the blue channel.

[geoff_k]

Pete

Nice work, your dedication is to be applauded.

Typical though, we get snowed in and all those Martians get is a bit of cloud!

Geoff

[resonator77]

impressive images

I noticed red filter produces clearer final result

[resonator77]

Pete,

just noticed, your Mars' size is almost the same as my (the) Moon image

do you use flip mirror to capture the object in the web cam?