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Old 18-01-2010, 04:12 PM
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Mars in IR + animation. Morning of Jan 18th

Hi All,

The seeing this morning for Mars was pretty crook with very strong gusty winds and little assistance from the jetstream, however, I was able to capture some IR 807+nm images that have some detail.

Have attached a labeled IR image. I am pleased that as bad as the seeing was, the inverted "V" extending north from Oxia Palus is fairly well defined and I have labeled the legs of the "V" which are named after rivers from the time when it was thought they may be canals.

Have also attached an animation of 4 IR images acquired at approx 30 min intervals that came up a lot better than I expected.

Hoping for an improvement in seeing for tomorrow morning.

Thanks for looking.
Regards
Trevor
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