A November Mars
The weather has been awful here but a window of opportunity between Atlantic weather systems allowed me to image planet Mars, for the first time this apparition. The image was captured on the 18th November some 13 days before the closest approach to earth for this apparition. Mars reaches opposition on the 8th December.
Seeing was rather poor but visible on Mars's 98% illuminated globe are Syrtis Major, Hellas and Sinus Meridiani.
The hood of white-blue Martian clouds covering the north polar cap are strikingly bright at bottom of the image. Some cloud structure is visible.
Hopefully more to come! Thanks for looking!
Imaged with a Celestron C11 SCT and an Explore Scientific focal extender. Attached to this was a ZWO 290MM camera with Baader RGB filters. A total of 6 RGB filter runs derotated with Winjupos.
A November Mars
The weather has been awful here but a window of opportunity between Atlantic weather systems allowed me to image planet Mars, for the first time this apparition. The image was captured on the 18th November some 13 days before the closest approach to earth for this apparition. Mars reaches opposition on the 8th December.
Seeing was rather poor but visible on Mars's 98% illuminated globe are Syrtis Major, Hellas and Sinus Meridiani.
The hood of white-blue Martian clouds covering the north polar cap are strikingly bright at bottom of the image. Some cloud structure is visible.
Hopefully more to come! Thanks for looking!
Imaged with a Celestron C11 SCT and an Explore Scientific focal extender. Attached to this was a ZWO 290MM camera with Baader RGB filters. A total of 6 RGB filter runs derotated with Winjupos.