A New Year Mars
A receding Mars imaged in poor seeing on the 2nd January.
This was and has been my first imaging foray since having a miserable Christmas with CoVid.
Been a bit of struggle to try and recover but glad I managed something, despite the hopeless seeing here with Mars swimming all over the place. This made focusing difficult - particularly the green and blue filters - so often the case!
The weather has been rather poor for with a strong Jetstream being ever present!
Anyway this image shows a just under 97% illuminated Mars. The red planet is now receding quite rapidly from our perspective as we leave it behind in our faster orbit.
The dark "thin" downward projection (projecting from the dark Mare Cimmerium) of the Sinus Gomer is pretty much central. The "Isthmus-Like" Hesperia region is to its right with the light coloured Elysium Plains lying below Sinus Gomer.
Some cloud is visible over the North Polar Region (bottom) and on the left limb.
Imaged with a Celestron C11 and a ZWO 290MM camera, with RGB filters and an Explore Scientific Focal Extender.
Thanks for looking!
A New Year Mars
A receding Mars imaged in poor seeing on the 2nd January.
This was and has been my first imaging foray since having a miserable Christmas with CoVid.
Been a bit of struggle to try and recover but glad I managed something, despite the hopeless seeing here with Mars swimming all over the place. This made focusing difficult - particularly the green and blue filters - so often the case!
The weather has been rather poor for with a strong Jetstream being ever present!
Anyway this image shows a just under 97% illuminated Mars. The red planet is now receding quite rapidly from our perspective as we leave it behind in our faster orbit.
The dark "thin" downward projection (projecting from the dark Mare Cimmerium) of the Sinus Gomer is pretty much central. The "Isthmus-Like" Hesperia region is to its right with the light coloured Elysium Plains lying below Sinus Gomer.
Some cloud is visible over the North Polar Region (bottom) and on the left limb.
Imaged with a Celestron C11 and a ZWO 290MM camera, with RGB filters and an Explore Scientific Focal Extender.
Thanks for looking!