Hi All,
Have finished my project to animate an entire rotation of Mars.
A day on Mars is 24 hrs 37 min's 22 sec's. I captured the data over a 34 day period on the nights and mornings of Jan 17th, 18th, 20th, 23rd, 28th, Feb 5th, 14th and 18th.
Initially I planned on capturing data every 3rd night to smooth out the changing apparent diameter from before and after opposition but due to the weather was unable to do so. This has effected the quality of the final result which I apologize for. I will do better in 2014.
This animation has 47 images in it and these 47 images represent the best 61,000 frames of the possible 117,500 frames that were captured.
I have not tallied up the hours of processing that went into this but it was considerable. I sort of feel a bit flat about the result as I had to include some images that were really not up to scratch, ex cyclone Olga has a lot to answer for.
Anyway I have attached a link to the animation which is on my website, due to the number of frames it is a large file at 941 Kb. I reduced the quality to bring it down from about 4 Mb.
http://trevsastronomy.webs.com/apps/...lbumid=8236950
Hope it is of some interest.
Regards
Trevor