Mars, Jan 19

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Hi all, here is a Mars image from this morning, under not-great (but not-awful) seeing. This is an IR image only, taken with an Astronomik pro-planet 742 filter.

50fps for 2 minutes, image resampled during processing.

cheers, Bird

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

and here's the best RGB that I could make from the night, the seeing was not good so the image is quite blurry.

cheers, Bird

[iceman (Mike)]

Still great to see Mars, Anthony. It must be nice to be so high in the sky compared to previous years.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Thanks Mike, and coming to opposition in early March, traditionally a time for good seeing around here, but La Nina has made that very unpredictable!

cheers, Bird

[Paul Haese]

Not bad Anthony. It still looks pretty low to me, but certainly time to get out my gear and get some data on Mars and Saturn.

It is nice to see the Pole still covered in ice.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Oh my, look at that detail on the Pole.

[venus (Lydia)]

Very interesting image of Mars thanks for sharing.

[Shiraz (Ray)]

good going for such a low target. regrds Ray

[Clayton]

Quite a nice shot Anthony

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Looks great - more please!

[Quark (Trevor)]

Nice work there Bird still some reasonable detail for a unfavorable apparition.

Cheers
Trevor

[Jen]

nice detail on that pole its lovely to see there are a few pics of Mars starting to surface again "bring it on" woohooo looking forward to seeing more from you in the near future cheers