Mars April 29th

[John Hothersall]

SPX350 F39, PGRFlea3, Baader RGB. 0952hrs.

Imaging Mars much earlier now before the cloud waves pass over from the West. Mars looks a bit smaller and seeing was avg to fair and then avg again. Mist altered the brightness of the channels a little giving a brighter red. The weather looks changeable now.

Mars RGB 0952hrs UT

Thanks, John.

[icytailmark]

wow john that looks amazing. Which filters did you use?

[strongmanmike]

That's an amazing Mars image, love the strong colours and contrast and lack of ringing a the limbs, you are fast becoming our own Damian Peach :thumbsup:

Mike

[Stefan Buda]

Hi John,

Impressive image!

How did you clean up the limb so nicely?

[cometcatcher]

Are you sure that's not a shot from the orbiter? ;)

[acarleton]

that is fantastic. great work

[Astro_Bot]

Another fantastic image. :thumbsup:

[John Hothersall]

Thanks for comments.



I use the Baader RGB filters. I went for the red look some go for the salmon colour, normally I am somewhere inbetween.



Stefan the limb was naturally ringless but I find when there is a phase WJupos leaves brighter red pixels on the limb so I blur the with a small brush at 2 pixels before using an eclipse tool around the planet to take away the fuzzy overlap.



Thanks Mike, I have still not had the best seeing but good none the less so I can't complain this season (not as good as Barbados though). My Olympus Mons was my best so far with a steady image on the screen which is exciting to see.

Regards, John.

[EricB]

Excellent image John :thumbsup:

Eric