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My best image of the opposition. This image won 4th place in the OPT Mars imaging contest. It won me a William Optics Megrez 80SD. Look here for another view. The dark spot on the right limb was identified as a dust storm shadow by a representative of the Mars Orbiter team (I do not have permission to utilize there name). This feature was also captured by several other Mars imagers. |
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The 5x Powermate and better camera settings combine with excellent seeing to bring out significantly more detail. See comparison of this image with Hubble image taken at almost exactly the same orientation. |
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Another F50 image with poor seeing. |
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I began to use the 5x Powermate with better camera settings to produce significantly better results with this image. See Image for details. |
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See Image for Details. |
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See Image for details. |
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Mars Captured 07/04/03 10:30 am GMT CM 263, Diameter 17.3" LX200 12", 3x Televue Barlow, #12 Wratten filter, Philips Vesta Pro Webcam Processing: A 1200 frame AVI collected and processed with IRIS. Selection, integration, and wavelet processing in IRIS, final adjustments in Photoshop. Comment: The dust cloud is clearly visible in the Hellas region beneath Sirus Major. |
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Mars Captured 07/04/03 11:20 am GMT CM 277.5, Diameter 17.3" LX200 12", 3x Televue Barlow, Philips Vesta Pro Webcam Processing: A 1200 frame AVI collected and processed with IRIS. Selection, integration, wavelet processing and color combined in IRIS, final adjustments in Photoshop. Comment: The dust cloud is clearly visible in the Hellas region beneath Sirus Major. |
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Mars Captured 06/29/03 11:00 am GMT CM 317, Diameter 16.4" LX200 12", 5x Televue Barlow, Philips Vesta Pro Webcam Processing: A 1200 frame AVI collected and processed with IRIS. Selection, integration, wavelet processing and color combined in IRIS, final adjustments in Photoshop. Comment: The dust cloud is not yet visible. |
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Mars Captured 06/28/03 10:30 am GMT CM 319, Diameter 16.2" LX200 12", 3x Televue Barlow, Philips Vesta Pro Webcam Processing: A 1200 frame AVI collected and processed with IRIS. Selection, integration, wavelet processing and color combined in IRIS, final adjustments in Photoshop. Comment: The dust cloud is not yet visible. |
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Mars Captured 06/20/03 10:00 am GMT CM 200, Diameter 14.2" LX200 12", 3x Televue Barlow, Philips Vesta Pro Webcam Processing: Best 600 frames from a 1200 frame AVI collected and processed with IRIS. Selection, integration, wavelet and tricolor processing in IRIS. |
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Mars Captured 06/07/03 10:00 am GMT CM 200, Diameter 13.2" LX200 12", 3x Televue Barlow, Philips Vesta Pro Webcam Processing: Best 600 frames from a 1200 frame AVI collected and processed with IRIS. Selection, integration, wavelet and tricolor processing in IRIS. |
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Mars Captured 05/18/03 10:00 am GMT CM 0, Diameter 10.97" LX200 12", 3x Televue Barlow, Philips Vesta Pro Webcam Processing: Best 300 frames from a 600 frame AVI collected and processed with IRIS. Selection, integration, wavelet and tricolor processing in IRIS. This is my first image of Mars for this opposition. The southern polar cap is very prominant. |