Gallery XVIII

Mars

        These images were shot with a SAC IVb camera using the C14 telescope at the Donald C. Martin Observatory at Huntington High School .

        I imaged from about 9:30-10:30 PM using the SAC IVb either at prime focus or with a 2x Meade "short" barlow. Seeing was so so. Best visual views were at about 220x. These image are from 50-450 frames and were stacked with Registax or Registax 2. I was shooting at 1/10 th of a second. I was limited as the camera would not capture at 5 frames per second which is preferred. I think that I have driver problems. Windows XP, hmmm. The images were shot on 9/10/03.

        These images were processed with Registax 2 and  show Mare Cimmerium as the dark feature as the lower of the two in the middle of the planet. Mare Tyrrhenum lies above this and to the left. Sytris Major is seen at the upper left edge of the planet as a dark smudge in the second and fourth images. The polar ice cap appears white but small at the upper right.

        These feature the same features. Utopia is the dark band to the far right side of the planet. The 2 dark spots seen in the 2 larger images may be dirt on the lens. Or it could be Nodus Alcyonius. These were shot with the Meade "shorty" 2x barlow. I shrunk the first image in Frontpage. These were processed with the origional version of Registax.

        These were shot at prime focus and processed with Registax. The grainy ones have some "wavelet" filters applied.

        These B&W images were shot with a Meade electronic Eyepiece on 9/9/03. I think that I must have used a barlow but I do not remember I did or not. They came out a little distorted bring taller then wise so I made them round with the editing featured in Frontpage. The dark structure that points down is Syrtis major. The dark structure that points above it and to the right is Mare Serpentis. The structure that points up and to the left from Syrtis Major is Mare Tyrrhenum. You can see the light, thin division between it and Mare Cimmerium (far left, upper planet) on the first image. The polar ice cap is seen to the bottom left.

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