FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: Webcam Image: Mars This Morning

[Chris Schur <comets133@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nice Tom!  What is the bright rim to the lower right?

Chris
--- Tom Polakis <tpolakis@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mars is now a bit larger than 8" in diameter, so
> it's not too early to begin looking at it.  In poor
> seeing at 3:30 this morning, I took this image with
> the Tuocam webcam through a 10" f/5.5 and 2.5x
> Barlow.  This results in an image scale of 0.33" per
> pixel (not enough!).  It is a stack of the best 800
> out of 1000 video frames taken at 10 fps.  After
> some work in Registax, the image was scaled up in
> Photoshop.
> 
> Syrtis Major and the Hellas Basin are visible.  The
> polar cap is extremely small these days, and eluded
> this image.
> 
> http://members.cox.net/tpolakis/astro/vid44c.jpg
> 
> Tom
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