Acouple of Mars shots from early this morning (21-01-10)

[james335k]

Hi everyone,

I had my first opportunity to image Mars last night. The seeing conditions were above average for this corner of the world (Dublin) I suppose. I was reasonably happy with the results. The equipment used was a Celestron C8 on an ASGT equitorial mount with my trusty DMK21AU04.AS with an Astronomik RGB filter set attatched. A Televue 2x barlow was attatched giving roughly an f20 image. The best 800/2000 frames were used for each channel. The final image was then enlarged slightly using photoshop. Hope you like.

[neil phillips]

Nice shots

[russ]

I agree, those are nice images. And there's some nice finer detail around the pole.

Russ

[brendant]

Superb shots, beautiful detail and colour.

Brendan

[kev]

oh, I like em. I see its cloudy on Mars too.

[russ]

Yes, i forgot to mention the clouds. Picked those up very nicely.

[arad85]

Lovely - good work. Next clear night and I'm out with Mars. Now have my EQ6 back in action

[james335k]

Thanks for all the kind words guys. I can't wait for the next clear evening to try again. I'll take more frames next time per channel to try and smooth the image up.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Great work. I am still staring at solid cloud:clouds2:

[james335k]

Forecast for tonight here in Dublin is clear skies with ground frost and fog. Promising imaging conditions. Fingers crossed!

[brianb]

Nice images!

clear skies with ground frost and fog. Promising imaging conditions.

Hmmm. Cloud here cleared at about 3am but the seeing was very bouncy, I thought maybe my scope wasn't properly cooled. Fog rolled in about lunchtime, I was trying to observe the sun & the seeing was awful - it was like the sun was playing on a trampoline! Now completely fogged out here (N Antrim coast) except when it temporarily lifts into low cloud. I hope you get better than that!

[james335k]

Thanks for the kind words guys it's really appreciated! Here's my final image from the same session. Just finished processing.

[james335k]

I hope so Brian, Maybe it will clear later up your way!

[johnh]

You have really picked up splendid detail, your Mars does have a 3D quality as I am definitely looking at a sphere.

JohnH.

[Virgoman]

Hi James,

Great image. Love the detail around the polar ice cap edge - shows irregular detail. Clouds well captured too. As has been said a nice 3D effect. Well done.

Regards,

Ralph

[Clayton]

Very nice images. Lovely detail

[red dwalf]

some of the best Mars images i`ve seen in a long while,

well done.

[james335k]

Thanks again guys. It's just great to be able to share these images with everyone.