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Mars 2010

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Although my telescope isn’t ideal for planetary imaging, plus my planetary imaging skills aren’t really that good, I thought I’d still have a go at capturing Mars around its closest approach on the 29th January. This was taken on the night of 6/2/2010. The planet’s diameter is around 14 arc seconds this opposition, crazy to think it was 25 arc seconds in 2003.

It still looks really small here as I used my wide field refractor and a x3 Barlow lens. The main thing I wanted to capture was the north polar cap, which can be seen quite easily. Also, according to the Leandro Rios Mars Previewer, the dark features down the left of the planet, from the north down, are: Mare Acidalium and Mare Erythraeum. Don’t know why it’s a bit deformed bottom-left, just my dodgy processing!


Meade 127 F7.5 Apo
7 minute AVI captured with a Mono-modified Phillips webcam @10fps
Processed in Registax 3
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Woah, you can see surface details even! incredible...