[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi All,

Captured my best IR Mars data for this apparition this morning.

Mars was only 23 degrees above the horizon for this capture and a mere 8 sec's of arc in diameter.

The seeing was good for such a low altitude and the live feed showed some well defined detail.

This image is in the IR 807+nm, it has been resized from 640 x 480 pixels to 800 x 600 pixels for a better image scale then cropped and the canvas sized to 18 x 14 cm.

Following on from Joel's exploits of imaging the Huygens Crater I think I also have Huygens in this image.

I have indicated Syritis Major, the Elysium Planes and the North Polar Ice Cap. There is much more detail however more lines identifying the features would detract from the image.

If you look closely, at the broadest part of Syritis Major, across the top of it, so to speak, there is a definite spot in the position of the Huygens Crater that matches the scale of the actual crater.

In resizing the image to reveal that detail there is a ring artifact around the planet, I think it is a small price to pay in revealing the most detail I have ever captured on Mars.

Thanks for Looking
Regards
Trevor