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Old 13-11-2009, 06:02 PM
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Mars morning of Nov 13th, IR + high res animation

Hi All,

When I started capturing data this morning at 3:39 CSST the temperature in my dome was 28.7 degrees C.

The seeing was much improved on the previous morning and these are the highest res Mars images I have produced to date.

I have attached an IR image from 17:23 UTC with a labeled comparison,
an IR image from 17:58 UTC and an RGB from 18:17 UTC.

There is considerable detail within the IR images, some of that detail I have not been able to identify. All IR images are 807+nm and have been resized by 150%.

The RGB was an after thought and really was left to close to twilight, this image has also been resized to 800 x 600 pixels it was not good enough to tolerate the same 150% treatment as the IR data.

I have attached a link to a very high res animation that consists of 5 images covering exactly 1 hour of Mars rotation. The rotation period for Mars is 24hrs 37mins 22sec's and this animation underlines just how much rotation occurs in 1 hr.

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads...im20091112.gif

Thanks for looking
Regards
Trevor
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