Phobos and Deimos

19:30 16/11/2005 UTC

I had a bunch of AVI's using different exposures at f6 trying to catch two little moons of Mars. I'd almost given up processing them to show only one of them, but then realized to try IRIS. It was in fact pretty easy to dig them up using IRIS. It is just fantastic and very accurate piece of [software]! So here's my first look at tiny martian moons. Just a tad bit out from the glare of overexposed Mars peeks Phobos. Deimos stands more clearly having more angular separation from the planet. The image is 2x resized to bring them out better. Phobos: 11.4mag 22.2" from Mars, Deimos 12.5mag 51.2" from Mars.