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Mars, London UK, 28 March 2012, ~00:30 hours. Animation of 11 frames

taken over ~ 45 minutes

 

FoV: North Polar cap at the 11 o'clock position.

 

North hemisphere features are the Mare Acidalium (large dark patch), and

 

Tempe (circular orange patch at the 9 o'clock position).

 

South hemisphere features are the Mare Erythraeum (5 o'clock). The spike

pointing up toward the Mare Acidalium is the Oxia Palus.

 

The orange bit separating the Mare Acidalium and Mare Erythraeum is Chryse.

 

The large orange expanse to the upper right of Chryse is Eden.

 

Scope - 15cm newtonian, 3x barlow, 25mm eyepiece projection, ~10cm

projection length

 

Camera - Samsung SDC435, IR block filter, 1/100 sec exposure

 

Processing - about 3,000 frames stacked each pic (from a 2-3 minute video avi) using Registax 6, wavelets-histogram-colour balance. Post processing in Photoshop Elements (high pass masking, gausian blur, levels)

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Uploaded on April 9, 2012
Taken on April 9, 2012