Mars through decent seeing, January 17th

[Starman]

After the rain cleared last night, the seeing was surprisingly stable. Here's an RGB process from the first run showing reasonable detail in Elysium as well as three Martian volcanoes enshrouded in cloud. Olympus Mons is the brightest and largest of the trio.

[kev 102 42]

Impressive...................kev

[barkis]

Outstanding as usual Mr L.

The Polar cap looks massive.

Ron.

[Dangerous-Dave]

Fantastic result Pete, definitely your best of the season. Cloudy here.

[themos]

I knew somebody would be making hay!

[russ]

OMG that is incredible, what an image. Well done Pete, best so far.

Russ

[moocher]

The BEST by some margin!!!!!!

Alan

[Starman]

Thanks chaps. As ever, your comments are very much appreciated.

[RichieJarvis]

Hi Pete,

Glad to see you got out last night as well! Wish my results were as fruitful though

Lovely pics - I wish I had ditched the imaging last night now, and put the C8 on the mount for a close look at Mars!

Cheers,

Richie

[arad85]

Echo all the comments above Pete... Lovely...

[Starman]

Thanks again.

Richie - I was actually in the process of setting up my deep-sky for the coming months and intended just to image non-Solar System on this occasion. The stars looked very steady though and soon the deep sky scopes were off the mount and the C-14 was on. After Mars, I had a go at Saturn (which was lower and more turbulent) before putting the DSO rig back on for the remaining part of the night until dawn. Then 4-hours of sleep later, I was up for the Sun. A really enjoyable session and too few and far between thesedays

[Jupiter Martin]

great capture

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Really great!!

[Starman]

Thanks Martin and Michael

[Clayton]

Fantastic stuff. A pleasure to look at.

[Starman]

Thanks Clayton.