Mars 2003/9/20, 23:19 PDT
Mars Information
- Azm: 177° 29' 17" Alt: +27° 57' 59"
- 222 images stacked
- Images taken at 1/100 second
- Images taken at 10 fps
- Images taken from driveway
- Mars Previewer II V2.01
shown to the right of the Mars image
is a freeware program by Leandro Rios which displays the central meridian and angular size of Mars for any date and time.
Imaging Equipment
- Camera: Philips PCVC740K ToUcam PRO web camera
- Telescope: Orion Atlas 10 reflector (254 mm aperture,
f/4.7 focal ratio, 1200 mm focal length)
- Finder: Mounted on top of a Atlas 10 is an Orion ShortTube™ 80 mm aperture rich-field refractor
(f/5 focal ratio, 400 mm focal length) which is used as a finder.
- Barlow: Tele Vue 5x Powermate
- Telescope Mount: Losmandy G-11 mount
Imaging Processing
- Cor Berrevoets Registax Version 2.1, align, select, stack and process multiple images
- JASC Inc. Paint Shop Pro Version 8.01, unsharp mask, final crop and convert to JPG
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