Mars 25th Nov

rick01 (Roman) · #1 27-11-2009, 05:06 AM

Hello all,

I've been watchin this forum and your perfectly detailed images! But now, I finally had some clear skies. So I captured Mars, after long time of cloudy nights ... Seeing was just average, so I push the QHY5 mono to the limit and set gain to 100% (very noisy

) and exposure set to 10ms. For my surprise, some more details on surface was appear (in compare with 80% gain and 33ms exposure). For color information I used visual green filter + UV/IR cut filter, as a green channel and 760nm IR filter as a red channel. The blue channel was synthetized. Finally I used an IR channel aslo as a luminance, so here you can see an IRIRG(sB) color composite. Used 8" Newton and 8mm TeleVue Plossl.

Cheers, Roman

iceman (Mike) · #2 27-11-2009, 05:47 AM

Nice work Roman, very detailed. Great image!

Clayton · #3 27-11-2009, 06:40 AM

Very nice shot Roman

Stuart78 (Stuart) · #4 27-11-2009, 08:19 AM

Thats awesome, lots of features visible there, it's funny i have a whitakers almanac from UK 1929 and it has alot of astronomy information it also sais the dark areas of mars are vegitation of some sort lol, you can kinda see why they thought this was the case lol....

Cheers,
Stu>>

Quark (Trevor) · #5 27-11-2009, 01:00 PM

Looking good Roman,

Some nice detail and interesting colour.

Very well done.
Regards
Trevor

rick01 (Roman) · #6 28-11-2009, 07:32 AM

Stuart: Yes, I also think about that features. They really looks like channels, or some "alien vegetation" at this resolution

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Trevor: That is fact. Cause I used IR filter to create an RGB component, the color is little bit off. I still trying process the image to looks more like real RGB.

Thanks to all

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Cheers, Roman