Mars Projection 2014

[John Hothersall]

SPX350 F39, PGRFlea3, Baader RGB filters.

I managed to get the full globe of Mars to a decent standard of detail, never thought it would be possible. I had to use Colour Balance and Hue/Saturation to match images closer and layers with brush to assemble. Some bits could be sharpened others needed smoothing but layers made it easy and it all seemed to match up.

Regards, John.

[omegacrux]

John , you've had a good season of Mars
Really good pics

David

[RickS]

That's amazing! Well done, John.

[astronobob]

Very interesting John, great work :thumbsup:
No idea why i thought, but why is it one cant see that huge Canyon that goes around about 1/3 of Mars's surface, im always looking for it in mars images :question:

[Matt Wastell]

Perfect!

[Camelopardalis]

Epic effort John, beautiful!

[U.K.Cowboy]

Great work John! Wish I could match up the joins as good as that.

[Poita]

You mean this one?
http://www.oneplaneteducation.com/canyons/images/canyon_marssmall.jpg

[SkyViking]

Very impressive John, it looks great!
What did you use to make this projection from your Mars images?

[rustigsmed]

awesome! a lot of hard work has paid off. have been admiring your images throughout the season.
are you going to create your own globe??

[John K]

Awesome work John = good to see you have put your great images on a map like this as it's a great reference for others as well for this apparition.

You should be contributing your photos to ALPO, CMO and other groups analysing and recording Mars images.

John K,

[pw]

Big effort, I've not seen it mapped/projected like this before, well done.

[Dennis]

That is just a most beautiful view John, well done; a lot of dedicated work and hard effort underpins this composite image.:thumbsup:

Cheers

Dennis

[EricB]

Fantastic John:thumbsup:

Eric

[strongmanmike]

If only you could go back and show that crazy Schiaparelli this :rolleyes: :lol:

Great work

Mike

[John Hothersall]

Thanks everyone.



I used the now essential WinJupos, after selecting the planet you go into Analysis/Map Computation and load in the WinJupos .ims RGB file you got when derotating the RGB assembly and it does it for you.

Now all I have to do is turn it back into a globe and rotate it smoothly - getting a bit too advanced.:shrug:



I remember this being suggested back in 2011 with the Saturn storm but had such bad 2012-3 seasons, I suppose I should have really.

Regards, John.

[pluto]

That's excellent, I can't believe the detail you've got there!
Olympus Mons sticks out so clearly :eyepop:

[MortonH]

What they said. Fantastic!

[astronobob]

Yep ! but I dont think John or any one knows :question: