Mars morning of Nov 13th, IR + high res animation

[Quark (Trevor)]

Hi All,

When I started capturing data this morning at 3:39 CSST the temperature in my dome was 28.7 degrees C.

The seeing was much improved on the previous morning and these are the highest res Mars images I have produced to date.

I have attached an IR image from 17:23 UTC with a labeled comparison,
an IR image from 17:58 UTC and an RGB from 18:17 UTC.

There is considerable detail within the IR images, some of that detail I have not been able to identify. All IR images are 807+nm and have been resized by 150%.

The RGB was an after thought and really was left to close to twilight, this image has also been resized to 800 x 600 pixels it was not good enough to tolerate the same 150% treatment as the IR data.

I have attached a link to a very high res animation that consists of 5 images covering exactly 1 hour of Mars rotation. The rotation period for Mars is 24hrs 37mins 22sec's and this animation underlines just how much rotation occurs in 1 hr.

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads...im20091112.gif

Thanks for looking
Regards
Trevor

[multiweb (Marc)]

Man this is awesome. Inspirational. I'm going to start looking into a DMK or other for the C11.

[kinetic (Steve)]

Trevor,

simply awesome work!

You can obviously identify most features because I suppose the IR
signature would probably be similar to the visible albedo of most
common objects, but having said that, remember that a lot of cloud
etc is sometimes seen over low lying areas in the colder dawn.
I remember reading this once about the Hellas Basin and
other areas.
Might be worth remembering when trying to pinpoint what something is
on your images.
Your resolution is so incredible for 8 arc sec that you may very well
be imaging transient features such as dawn cloud, localised dust storms
etc.....
I did a few animations 2003 and 2005, I will try and dig them out
for you.
Incredibly impressed!

Steve

[DavidU (Dave)]

Damn !

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Man this is awesome. Inspirational. I'm going to start looking into a DMK or other for the C11.

Thanks very much Marc, just goes to show that very oppressive hot weather can still provide reasonable seeing. The DMK is really good value for money to dip your toe in the planetary imaging puddle to see if it is for you or not.

Originally Posted by kinetic

Trevor,

simply awesome work!

You can obviously identify most features because I suppose the IR
signature would probably be similar to the visible albedo of most
common objects, but having said that, remember that a lot of cloud
etc is sometimes seen over low lying areas in the colder dawn.
I remember reading this once about the Hellas Basin and
other areas.
Might be worth remembering when trying to pinpoint what something is
on your images.
Your resolution is so incredible for 8 arc sec that you may very well
be imaging transient features such as dawn cloud, localised dust storms
etc.....
I did a few animations 2003 and 2005, I will try and dig them out
for you.
Incredibly impressed!

Steve

Thanks for the very kind words Steve,

I think I need to put some time in checking out images posted from previous oppositions to get an idea of what dust storms or dawn cloud look like. There seems to be some small but quite well defined features in my images that are hard to put a tag on when comparing the image with my wall chart.

Originally Posted by DavidU

Damn !

Thanks Dave.

[iceman (Mike)]

Wow, fantastic work and animation. Brilliant images Trev.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Wow, fantastic work and animation. Brilliant images Trev.

Thanks very much Mike, looking forward to opposition with growing anticipation.

[Troy]

really nice pictures Trevor