Mars April 18th Best yet

[John Hothersall]

SPX350 F39.1, PGRFlea3, Baader RGB filters.

Seeing started at 8.30pm as fair so I started to image and did so every 10mins as the seeing started to improve and by the seventh set was very good. Even from the start I could see Olympus Mons. Then cloud came by and seeing deteriorated, it improved slightly for Saturn then dipped to avg ending the session.

First image is last of te session at 1129hrs UT

Next image I combined the last 3 of the session in WJupos to get extra sharpness. 1109, 1119, 1129hrs UT combined RGB.

Saturn was taken at 1308hrs.

Thanks, John.

[omegacrux]

Wow that is amazing

David

[Astro_Bot]

It's taken me several minutes to stop drooling at the images and be able to type! Stunning! :eyepop:

I'm pretty sure that second image (combined image) is better than ones they show off in magazines.

When you combined, did you combine each colour channel separately, then merge the channels into the RGB image, or the other way around? Would it make any difference?

[Sebbie]

Beautiful processing John!

WJupos did an amazing job bringing subtle surface markings into view.

Sebastian

[Dennis]

Lovely surface detail on Mars John – an amazing image set and animation. The Saturn image is quite breathtaking too, spaceship quality!

Cheers

Dennis

[h0ughy]

well what a fantastic result -I am in awe

[John Hothersall]

Thanks for the comments, we seem to have a few clear interesting nights here in SE QLD.



I read a tutorial which said to combine the reds, greens and blues separately ('Derotation of images' in Tools section) so you have 3 mono images to combine in the RGB combine section in WJ. If you have good/vgood seeing you should take RGB sets back to back then do a combine of say 6 and you will pick up more detail compared to one set alone - Thank goodness for WJ!

John.

[Regulus]

I can definitely see Canals; that's how good these are. Fantastic photographs John

[Derek Klepp]

Thanks John great pics

[SkyViking]

Wonderful Mars images for sure, the level of detail is impressive. Saturn is looking very good too!

[Shiraz]

Cracking good images John - well done.

[peter_4059]

Amazing John - some of the best I've seen.

[scopemankit]

Awesome image John.