Mars Loop 22/10/2020

[multiweb (Marc)]

Here's a bit over an hour of Mars RGB animation with no funky colors and legit clouds.

http://www.astropic.net/astro/mars_a...B_20201022.gif

http://www.astropic.net/astro/mars_a...B_20201022.mp4

[RB (Andrew)]

Very, very cool Marc !!!

[Dennis]

Wow Marc, I just cannot get over the image scale you are achieving yet still retaining the nice details of the surface features.

Should I sell my M210 and get a CN212...

Cheers

Dennis

[DarkArts]

That is mighty impressive. Very smooth motion and great detail at the same time.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by RB

Very, very cool Marc !!!

Thanks mate.

Originally Posted by Dennis

Wow Marc, I just cannot get over the image scale you are achieving yet still retaining the nice details of the surface features.

Should I sell my M210 and get a CN212...

Cheers

Dennis

Thanks Dennis. The CN-212 and the Mewlon 210 are the same. The CN-212 is probably a little better corrected off-axis but that's about it. Wouldn't matter for planetary at all.

Originally Posted by DarkArts

That is mighty impressive. Very smooth motion and great detail at the same time.

Thanks. I scheduled 90s captures with 2s intervals non stop so there's about 50 frames ~8s of loop, that's why it's smooth. The GIF playback is set at 10fps and there's very little rotation between frames. I wanted to see if the clouds move with the planet surface or were just limb artefacts and they seem to move from the left to the right. There are hints of thin clouds in the middle as well.