Mars

NOTES DATE: Saturday, September 6, 2003 TIME: 12:30 am EDT CAMERA: Phillips ToUcam Pro (640x480) LOCATION: Owl Observatory - Kalamazoo Nature Center INSTRUMENT: 12" LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain (with Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate) PROCESSING: Images acquired with K3CCDTools.  RegiStax 2.0 aligned and stacked 73 of 587 images.  Further enhancements made with Adobe Photoshop 7.0 COMMENTS: The Red Planet as it appeared nearly 10 ten days after its historic perihelic opposition.