Mars and Saturn 12/13 Oct 2020

[Paul Haese]

I had a spot of reasonable seeing last night. It could have been better but there was a few minutes when the seeing was around 8/10. However it was mainly around 7/10. Enough to get excited by not enough to produce and truly awesome image like I have seen on Facebook of late. Seeing is king!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Wow, that Mars knocks the ball out of the park. Incredible details and colours.

[DarkArts]

That is a fantastic Mars. It looks like the seeing went off for Saturn, though - it's a bit noisy.

[sharpiel]

Paul that's really really good. What is the blue? I don't see it as prominently in the other images here at the moment though it is to a lesser extent visible in some. I know your images are excellent so it's a deliberate filter or effect highlighting what?

[PeterM]

Gulp... all of the above Paul. Thanks for sharing!

[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys for the comments.

Originally Posted by sharpiel

Paul that's really really good. What is the blue? I don't see it as prominently in the other images here at the moment though it is to a lesser extent visible in some. I know your images are excellent so it's a deliberate filter or effect highlighting what?

The blue is the high altitude clouds, they are often captured as being blue or slightly blue white. Nothing deliberately done here either with a filter or processing. Just saturation across the entire image produced the colour. I cannot explain why others have not got the same colour. Some do some don't. On the planetary imaging Facebook page the colour is common.