farewell Mars

[Shiraz]

Got in a short RGB imaging run on Mars between clouds last night. Placed the image in a montage with the odd few similar scale images I got from Jan-Mar for a size comparison. It sure is getting much smaller as we leave it behind.
The seeing was ordinary, but surprisingly there was just enough recognisable detail in the red channel to allow a rough guess at how the image should be aligned in the montage - the green and blue channels were almost completely sandblasted by the jetstream though. Seeing has been a problem all along with this low elevation apparition.
Imaged with GSO f4 8inch on HEQ5pro, stacked Barlows with extension, RGB filters, DMK21, Registax/IRIS/GIMP2 processing.
Thanks for looking.

[Quark]

Hi Ray,

Very nice presentation of the changing apparent dia of Mars for this apparition.

Well done.
Regards
Trevor

[Shiraz]

Hi Trevor

thanks for your kind comment

regards Ray

[Suzy]

Hello Ray,
From a Noobie, I want to thank you for sharing that wonderful display of Mars. Leading up to opposition, during and after, I (tho disappointing) put my 6" scope on this planet constantly, sometimes nearly everyday if I could. Wasn't a whole lot I could see as it was so bright and so small. But I did notice changes however, and did very much notice the polar ice cap around opposition. Your pictures, give me a fantastic account of the little I could make out on my scope in a better way. If you don't mind, can I please print this and put it into my ob. file?

Regards,
Suzy.

[Shiraz]

Hi Suzy

Really glad you found the images to be useful. I also found that the view was initially less than breathtaking - it was just an unstable fuzzy orange ball... However, after a while, the icecap began to stand out and the main dark features were also visible at times - just as you describe. I tried to get the images to look similar to the best eyepiece views.
have sent a PM re printing.

regards Ray

[Lester]

Hi Ray, you have captured a nice amount of detail in your images. Well presented too.

Thanks for the view.

[Shiraz]

Hi Lester - thanks for your comments
regards Ray

[gregbradley]

Wow, what a great montage - beautiful!

Greg.

[renormalised]

Great shots!!!!. Very well presented, well done:)

[Shiraz]

Hi Greg and renormalised

thanks very much for your encouraging comments

regards Ray

[Doodles23]

Ray, that is a stunning set. It's sad to see Mars go but you've got a great photo montage suitable for framing.

[Shiraz]

Hi Dave
Thanks very much for your generous comments.
Regards Ray