Mars March 10th

[John Hothersall]

SPX350 F36.3, PGRFlea3, Astrodon filters.

Seeing was very exciting in potential but never made the grade before cloud and rain came in at midnight but got 2 sets an hour apart. At times the image would stay still for several seconds before some blurry images giving a good result but could have gone so much better. The breeze also bounced things around which was irritating and involved the Recycle Bin.

Seeing is so local as Tom got the best and I was nearly there but not quite but pleased with my results.

1152hrs
1254hrs UT.

Thanks, John.

[Clayton]

A couple of nice ones there John

[allan gould]

Beautifully detailed images there John. I was at the eyepiece at about the same time and was amazed that I could actually use my 5mm LVW eyepiece in the 10"SCT and you have shown exactly what I saw. Thanks for such a great couple of images.
Allan

[von Tom (Tom)]

John those images are the first I've seen that really convey the shifting windswept surface of Mars. And no wonder it was thought that Mars had vegetation!
Thanks for showing these

Tom

[RobF (Rob)]

Stunning images John - you have every right to be very proud of those.

[asimov (John)]

Great work John! Lovely crisp details! Here in Bundy it was clouded out but I did see a star during the evening at some stage to be able to tell the seeing was pretty good. Naturally I stayed up for a long time waiting for that sucker hole that never came - Sucker!

[Shiraz (Ray)]

outstanding detail John. are these straight RGB, or did you also use some IR? Regards ray

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I love the detail!!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Hmm? now don't stick pitchforks in my eyes now... sure the detail is there but I'm gunna buck the trend here John, only because I have seen what you can do with that 14" beast. These images look like charcoal drawings, sorry, the colour is mute and too yellow IMO. Not sure what has gone wrong here but I recon you can do better and would love to see a repro

Mike
not a planetary imager soooo what would I know?

[multiweb (Marc)]

That's awesome John. Sharp as. Don't listen to Mike, he's got his yellow googles on.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

That's awesome John. Sharp as. Don't listen to Mike, he's got his yellow googles on.

Don't listen to Marc cause he..?..he..?...is French

[Lester]

Outstanding detail John, thanks for the views.

[John Hothersall]

Thanks all. Ray I dont use IR as it is not as good as red although it has stronger contrast but lacks detail but is alright when seeing is avg.

Mike I have been imaging planets properly since I got here in Bris -2 years - and still struggle with colour and tend to oversharpen. When I do balanced RGB I get green dark features so have to sort that out. I know it is not quite right and needs to be softer like Trevors and I do reprocess after I have posted as I am never happy so will have another fiddle.

Regards, John.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Cool, I look forward to the Sidonio ...or is that only the correct term for a deep sky repro

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

A touch yellow - maybe - but so much detail - great stuff!

[John Hothersall]

The right colour this time and softer processing, if only I could have done this in the beginning. I went at it too quickly.

Regards, John.

[RobF (Rob)]

Well if NASA had early trouble getting the colour of Mars right (from the early Viking data as I recall?), I can't see how we can complain

[icytailmark (Mark)]

great work john. I hope i can take images that good someday

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

The right colour this time and softer processing, if only I could have done this in the beginning. I went at it too quickly.

Regards, John.

Ah, now they look a bit better

Mike

[h0ughy (David)]

brilliant images there John.
Mike i dare you to do some planet imagery