• Welcome to Orpington Astronomical Society.
 

News:

New version SMF 2.1.4 installed. You may need to clear cookies and login again...

Main Menu

Mars 31 Jan 2010

Started by MarkS, Feb 02, 2010, 06:34:04

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.

MarkS


Another try at Mars - this time the seeing was very good for short periods.

Philips SPC900 webcam on Celestron C11 using eyepiece projection from a 15mm eyepiece.  This gave an effective focal ratio of around F60.

Remember, at his opposition, Mars is only 14 arcsec in diameter.


Carole

Both your Mars images are very good, but I think I like this one best. 

Carole

Mike

For such a tiny target you've pulled out a surprising amount of detail there Mark. really nice.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan