Mars

22:25 19/9/2005 UTC

It's been a while since my last mars image. Originally I was planning to image it at least once a week, but now I had almost three weeks with no opportunity to image. But this was a very fine session. We had relatively warm weather and full moon was lighting up the night, making it easier to hassle around. Seeing was good, at short times even excellent. I took clean sets of RGB and IR images and shortly after that a thick fog rose... This time I also present the RGB (left) image together with the IrRGB. I'll probably update all my other images with both appearances.

Camera: Phillips ToUCam Pro II webcam | Telescope: Orion Optics Europa 200mm f6 Newtonian reflector, Televue Powermate 5x | Mount: Orion Skyview Pro, Boxdoerfer PowerFlex MTS-3SLP drive controller | Filters: Baader IR/UV block, Baader IR pass filter | Guiding: - | Exposure: 750(1500) RGB + 750(1500) IR x 1/5s f30 | Software: Qastrocam, Registax, GIMP | Location: 60°31'N 26°52'E (Koivula/Kotka,FI) |