Pictures of Mars - 22 August 2003

Mars learning curve Index


Small is beautiful

Mars taken with 3x Tele Vue Barlow lens

From left to right:

I still believe my smaller images are more beautiful than the origionals at actual size. The smallest image here is the best of the bunch.

The larger images are just larger - they do not show more detail and also looks to noisy and dirty.

Date: 22 August 2003 Telescope: 10 inch SCT Streaming speed in Astro-Snap: - around 4 fps
Times: 01:05 UT Camera: Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 Processing: 250 frames stacked out of 1000
Observatory: Hartbeespoort Magnification: 3x Tele Vue Barlow Software: Astro Snap, K3 CCD Tools and Photoshop

Mars Apparent Diameter: 25.0 " Illuminated Fraction: 0.996 Distance from Earth: 0.3741 ua Central meridian: 29.6


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Mars taken with 3x Tele Vue Barlow lens

(As above) from left to right:

Date: 22 August 2003 Telescope: 10 inch SCT Streaming speed in Astro-Snap: - around 4 fps
Times: 20:38 UT Camera: Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 Processing: 200 frames stacked out of 800
Observatory: Hartbeespoort Magnification: 3x Tele Vue Barlow Software: Astro Snap, K3 CCD Tools and Photoshop

Mars Apparent Diameter: 25.0 " Illuminated Fraction: 0.996 Distance from Earth: 0.3742 ua Central meridian: 324



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