First visit to Mars this apparition during seeing 3-4 at dawn 4" TMB refractor at f/60 with webcam; all south up 1600 frames in 4 groups automatically stacked in REGISTAX; realigning of red and blue channel, final combining, color balance und unsharp mask in Photoshop; |
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Mars again during seeing 3-4 at dawn each 1200 frames in 3 groups automatically stacked in REGISTAX with 2x resampling; realigning of red and blue channel, final combining, color balance und unsharp mask in Photoshop; Top: C11 at F/30 with webcam Bottom: 4" TMB refractor at f/60 with webcam; The result is dominated by the seeing effects, a benefit of the C11 is the lower noise, allowing more agressive sharpening; |
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Mars during seeing 3-4 imaged with the webcam and orange filter for luminance each 1200 frames in 3 groups automatically stacked in REGISTAX with 2x resampling for luminance; 400 frames stacked for color without filter, realigning of red and blue channel, final combining, color balance und unsharp mask in Photoshop; Top: C11 at F/30 Bottom: 4" TMB refractor at f/60; More details and less noise again for the C11; |
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Mars during seeing 3-5 imaged with the webcam and the C11 at f/30 800 out of 2400 frames in 4 groups stacked in REGISTAX with 2x resampling, realigning of red and blue channel, final combining, color balance und unsharp mask in Photoshop; |
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Mars at seeing 2-3 imaged with the webcam and the C11 at f/30 Top: 2000 frames in 4 groups processed in the new REGISTAX V2 with 2x resampling, final tweaking in Photoshop; Bottom: 15 frame animation out of 600 raws each processed with Registax, clouds stopped the imaging; |
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Mars with the 2 tiny moons Phobos and Deimos at seeing 3-4 imaged with the 10D and the C11 at f/10, south up Top: single cropped exposure 8 sec at ISO800, insert of Mars surface: 20 exposures at 1/60 sec at f/20 stacked with REGISTAX; This image has been selected by NASA for: APOD Oct 24, 2003 Bottom: 4 frame animation over 25 minutes showing the orbit of the 2 moons at 70%; |
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Mars during seeing 3-5 imaged with the webcam and the 24" Gerlitzen cassegrain at f/20 1500 frames in 3 groups stacked in REGISTAX, final combining, color balance und unsharp mask in Photoshop; |
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Mars at opposition during seeing 2-4 imaged with the webcam and the C11 at f/30 Top: 1000 frames in 2 groups stacked in REGISTAX, final combining, color balance und unsharp mask in Photoshop; Bottom: Comparison to a new Hubble image at similar CM to compare surface features |
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Finally a collage of all successful imaging dates in correct relative size up to opposition! Several days have not been succesful due to bad seeing conditions... Eventual more Mars images will be added |
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Mars during seeing 3-5 imaged with the webcam and the C11 at f/30 3 x 1000 frames in 3 groups stacked in REGISTAX, 2 with orange filter for luminance, 1 unfiltered for color, final combining, color balance und unsharp mask in Photoshop; |
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Mars during seeing 3-5 imaged with the webcam and the C11 at f/30 4 x 1000 frames in 4 groups stacked in REGISTAX, 2 with orange filter for luminance, 2 unfiltered for color, final combining, color balance und unsharp mask in Photoshop; |
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A very distant Mars during good seeing (3-6) imaged with the webcam and the C11 at f/30 3 x 600 frames double stacked in REGISTAX, final combining, color balance und unsharp mask in Photoshop; Dust storm in Hellas? |
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