[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi All,
Imaged Mars this morning in IR.
Was up at 3 am and my mirror was down to temp and stable by 4 am.

Initially there was not a cloud to be seen but as I prepared for my first capture my histogram dropped off by about 50%, yep cloud.

Several times I thought about packing up and going back to bed but eventually at 4:56 am the signal ramped back up and I was able to make two successful 3 minute captures in infrared.

I have posted the best of those two images. The seeing was good and even though Mars was only about 20 degrees above the horizon the live feed was quite stable.

In IR there is some surface detail visible, the dark region to the North is Mare Acidalium. The ice cap at the North pole is visible as is Mare Erythraeum.

Thanks for looking
Regards
Trevor