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[Lacaille]

Hi All, 

 

In the past, May has been quite a good month for imaging from Canberra, but wretched seeing and veils of clouds have prevailed this year. Meanwhile, my favourite planet has not helped by receding to 6 arcsecs, countered only marginally by a slight rise in declination.

 

Last night there was a gap in the clouds and I raced out to have a go while I still can for this apparition, and found the seeing somewhat improved - that is, I could just make out blurry albedo features in the live feed, so still not great.

 

Nevertheless, the images here show clouds over the Lunae plain, with Ascraeus Mons, one of the Tharsis chain, peering out at the terminator. The NPC is now reduced to a mere blob.

 

 

In the next few days, I am hoping to image a brightening frosty Hellas as it hoves into view.

 

Regards

 

Mark

 

 

[larrytOMC200]

Quite a good image for such conditions. Well done indeed! Larry

[Foc]

A good Southern view of Mars 

[Spacedude4040]

Very nice capture and processing 

Mike

[Lacaille]

Thanks a lot for the likes and kind comments. Weather has closed in for now here so radio silence from me for a bit!

Regards

[Mike Phillips]

Inspirational images Mark

[Lacaille]

Thanks Mike, much appreciated! I unfortunately posted the 3X drizzled image which looks startlingly large! I must post below an image that better reflects the resolution attained.

[Lacaille]

OK, this looks a bit better!

 

[zjc26138]

Those are great images!

[Kokatha man]

A decent effort Mark   - a few degrees higher now but much smaller and the seeing has been pretty woeful after sunset...we caught something similar a week ago but weren't terribly enthused by our outcome! 

[Lacaille]

Thanks for the further likes and kind comments! Darryl, I just saw your post and it looked very very good to me!   You guys are perfectionists if you weren't enthused!  

 

Regards

 

Mark