Unexpected Mars, Jan 25th

[Starman]

The 24th/25th of Jan was great because despite forecasts of wall to wall cloud, the day was clear for solar imaging and the night clear for Mars. Doesn't seem to happen like that very often unless it's the other way round!

Unfortunately the seeing wasn't that good for either but Registax did its magic again. At times Mars was exploding in a ball of fuzz during the imaging session. I've included a reduced size version as the eye appears to interpret some of the subtle shading detail a bit better on reduced images.

[Jupiter Martin]

Thats as good as your 17th images excellent you should post them on the thread for the S@N programme.

[Starman]

Ermmmm...

[LunarLight]

Whoa thats awesome!

This might be a silly question but the faint white patches around the middle of the planet, are those some kind of cloud? if so then that's really cool! :-)

[Starman]

Yes they are clouds and record best when the planet's imaged through a blue filter. Here's the blue image that was used to construct this RGB image...