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| 225 stacked frames out of 1000 Background came out very dark brown |
Background made black | Processed for max. pole detail, with rest of Mars an unnatural purple. |
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| 225 stacked frames out of 1000 Background came out very dark brown |
Background made black | Processed for max. pole detail, with rest of Mars an unnatural purple. |
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| South Pole in third image pasted on second image of Mars I changed the brightness of Mars to be similar to that of this South Pole |
Mars in the webcam default colors - green/bluish | The best single raw frame out of 1000. Ugly black circles are dust donuts |
Exposure time were 1/10 second in all cases. Gamma = zero and saturation were set at 100 percent for all the images of Mars on this webpage.
Mars was 69 degrees high in the sky when these raw frames were captured.
| Date: 24 September 2003 | Telescope: 10 inch SCT | Streaming speed in Astro-Snap: - around 4 fps |
| Times: 21:30 UT | Camera: Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 | Processing: 170 frames stacked out of 800 |
| Observatory: Hartbeespoort | Magnification: 2x Meade Barlow | Software: Astro Snap, K3 CCD Tools and Photoshop |
| Mars Apparent Diameter: 21.9 " | Illuminated Fraction: 0.963 | Central meridian: 43.65 |
| Date: 24 September 2003 | Telescope: 10 inch SCT | Streaming speed in Astro-Snap: - around 4 fps |
| Times: 21:35 UT | Camera: Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 | Processing: 220 frames stacked out of 1000 |
| Observatory: Hartbeespoort | Magnification: 2x Meade Barlow | Software: Astro Snap, K3 CCD Tools and Photoshop |
| Mars Apparent Diameter: 21.9 " | Illuminated Fraction: 0.963 | Central meridian: 44.65 |