[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi All,

Returned from holidays yesterday afternoon and imaged Mars this morning. The sky looked very steady with the naked eye but I was disappointed with the live feed from my DMK at the altitude of Mars with my RGB filters. I did make one reasonable RGB and it is posted here. I also imaged at 807nm in IR. My IR filter really shines when the seeing is ordinary and I have posted a very high res IR image.

I struggled a bit with the identification of some of the fine detail as Mars Previewer II and my Mars wall chart don't have some of these features. I have sort assistance from the B.A.A and ALPO Mars sections with this.

Of particular interest is the very well defined inverted "V" shaped feature extending down to the North from the Sinus Margaritifer region.

The collar within the NPC came up nicely in IR, this marks the point where the NPC will recede to this summer. With a slightly heavier application of LR Decon this collar becomes very well defined, however it is still easy to identify in this image.

Thanks for looking.
Regards
Trevor