Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. It is also referred to as the "Red Planet" because of its reddish appearance.

Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere, having surface features reminiscent both of the impact craters of the Moon and the volcanoes, valleys, deserts and polar ice caps of Earth.

Planetary images made after June 16th 2009 were created with a DMK21AU04 camera. Unless stated otherwise, all other images are created using modified webcams.

Category 'Mars' - image 1 to 10 (29) next

Mars in Blue

Tuesday, March 09th 2010 - 23:18 (UTC) - focal ratio f/36

Resized to 200%. Seeing was pretty good.

equipment used
Modified DK21AU04.as with ICX618ALA-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10\" F/4.5 EQ

Mars

Tuesday, March 09th 2010 - 23:16 (UTC) - focal ratio f/36

The animation consists of 17 sets of RGB data, manually aligned and processed in Photoshop. The images were shot between 21:21 and 23:16 UTC, March 9 2010.

Shot with the modified DMK21 camera with icx618ala ccd, at 1/54s for every channel.

equipment used
Modified DK21AU04.as with ICX618ALA-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10\" F/4.5 EQ

Mars

Saturday, March 06th 2010 - 22:36 (UTC) - focal ratio f/36

Mars between 21:22 and 22:36UTC

equipment used
Modified DK21AU04.as with ICX618ALA-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10\" F/4.5 EQ

Mars

Monday, March 01st 2010 - 23:38 (UTC) - focal ratio f/36

First light of the modified DMK21 camera (read more under wiki)
This animation shows Mars rotating between 23:05 23:38 UTC on March 1.

equipment used
Modified DK21AU04.as with ICX618ALA-E ccd
Meade Starfinder 10\" F/4.5 EQ

Mars

Tuesday, February 16th 2010 - 23:50 (UTC) - focal ratio f/36