Another Mars December 10, 2007

I hesitate to post after Rolando's excellent image but this the best I got so far. Seeing was half decent in North Alabama for a change. Imaged Mars with a Toucam 740 with IR cut filter and a C11. Still a bit noisy, but a few details did show up. I think there may be some clouds on the lower right of the image. I'm still dreaming of a new Imaging Source Camera!

John

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I took this one, not even close to the ones taken by Rolando and John, but I'm pleased.. jejeje

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Greetings John, WOW, that's a stunning composite it shows considerable surface detail and atmospheric activity, very impressive. Thanks for giving me permission to try tweaking it. First I saved it as a bitmap then transfered it to Microsoft Digital Image, there I slightly increased the saturation and adjusted the red, green and blue colors, I increased the contrast and rebalanced brightness,(twice actually) this also helped to sharpen the Martian limb. Finally I saved it as a PNG in order to increase resolution. I hope it's an improvement. Cheers, Dan

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John, excellent shot! What size barlow & frame rate did you use? Thanks

Regards,
Steve

Very nice image John. Lots of detail. Neber be afraid to post your images. We are all together, all friends.

Jim Phillips

Very nice John. Beautiful!

Jim Phillips