Projections Jup & Mars

[Troy]

Hi
Been mucking around with old Jupiter data. I wanted to create a polar projection animation with my images of the 09 impact site (Wesley's Impact). The animation has 6 frames and the data is from the 24-7-09 and 19-8-09.
Also I have created a Mars North and South Polar projection and the original frame resized 125%

Here is the Jupiter animation: http://s936.photobucket.com/albums/ad201/tranter04/Mars/jupiter/

[Quark]

Well done Troy,

WinJupos is a very powerful program and I suspect under utilized by many amateurs that only associate it with Jupiter.

Regards
Trevor

[iceman]

That's a very fine image of Mars, Troy.

Nicely done.

Trevor - quite right. I'm one of them :)

[Quark]

Hope you don't mind my input on this point Troy.

Mike, when you open WinJupos, from the Program menu select Celestial Object > Mars.

From the Recording menu > Image Measurement.

Open your image and fill in the fields for the image and observer then proceed with the orientation, alignment and size adjustment for the outline frame just as you would have previously done for Jupiter.

From the Pos menu click on any feature within the image to read off the Long and Lat for that object. This is very handy for positive ID of features within the image and more accurate than Mars Previewer II, which is really just a rough guide.

Just as previously with Jupiter, it is possible to, from the Analysis menu, go to Map Computation, where various different projections can be created from your image.

On the ALPO Mars site is a very nice hi res Mars Map produced by Damian Peach with WinJUPOS. Recall that it was possible to produce very hi res images for Jupiter in 2009 and that very high res detail looked good in the various projection modes available in WinJUPOS.

For us in OZ the low alt of Mars really detracts from the resolution compared with imagers in the Northern Hemisphere and the projections that WinJUPOS is capable of really require very high res data to work well.

Regards
Trevor

[Troy]

Thanks Mike and Trevor. That was good input Trevor and I certainly do not mind.
Maybe you could do a 5 min tutorial and put it in the articles section of this site?
I was thinking of doing a WinJUPOS tutorial with Jupiter and putting on this site and over at SCP but I lack the time, that's why I would prefer if you or someone else to do a tutorial :D