The pictures below were taken in very windy conditions. At first I thought I should not even bother trying in such windy conditions. I am glad I did. I noticed Olympus Mons on the first picture I took, so immediately decided to spend more time capturing bitmaps to stack into pictures.
Olympus Mons has a low relief. The pictures below does not actually show the physical mountain itself. It show s clouds hanging around Olympus Mons. As Olympus Mons is moving towards the limb it is more easily visible from the shadows the clouds cast.
Olympus Mons is most clearly visible in the third picture - on the top row. It is the orange/brown spot at the bottom/left - at the 7 to 8 o'clock position.
The prominent white spot at the 9 o'clock position is probably clouds hanging over Arsai Mons.
A cloud of dust is easily visible in the second and third images of Mars - at the 5 to 6 o'clock positions. On the forth image the cloud of dust is just starting to move onto the visible disk of Mars. The fifth image shows this cloud of dust a little further onto the disk of Mars. The last image shows that this cloud of dust is covering Elysium. It is clearly visible at the bottom of the last image as a large, yellow-orange round area.
There are 2 maps for these areas on Mars at the bottom of this webpage.






| Date: 3 August 2003 | Telescope: 10 inch SCT | Bitmaps captured at streaming speed in Astro-Snap: - around 4 fps |
| Time: 22:00 - 1:44 UT | Camera: Logitec Quickcam Pro 4000 | Processing: 100 frames stacked out of 1400 (300 seconds) |
| Observatory: Hartbeespoort | Magnification: 3x Tele Vue Barlow | Software: Astro Snap, K3 CCD Tools and Photoshop |
| Mars Apparent Diameter: 22.8 " | Illuminated Fraction: 0.967 | Distance from Earth: 0.4096 ua | Central meridian: See above |

