Mars from Murrumbateman, October 21

Hi, it's been a while since I posted anything here but I thought you might like to see a Mars image taken on the morning of the 21st from my home at Murrumbateman near Canberra in SE Australia.

Mars will be a challenge for us southerners this year, it reaches a maximum altitude of 31 degrees, no doubt you'll all get much better images as payback for Jupiter

Scope: www.acquerra.com.au/astro/lexx.html

Camera: point Grey Research Dragonfly2 mono firewire

- red channel: 150 seconds @ 40fps, 80% gain
- green channel: 50 seconds @ 40fps, 100% gain
- blue channel: 50 seconds @ 40fps, 100% gain

Stacked about 2500 frames in red and 1000 in each of green and blue. Frames were resampled to 150% size before processing.

Seeing was fair, sometimes maybe 7/10.



regards, Bird

That's superb Bird, excellent detail visible there!

Well, what can I say, but that's class!

Struth Sheila, theeat is wun foine eemage!

That is remarkable Bird! Can't wait to get a look at this now.

Trev

Cool image Bird
I guess you have the same issue with altitude above the horizon with Mars as we had with Jupiter this year. Considering how low it is above the horizon that is a superb image-best I have seen this year.