Mars

NOTES
DATE:
Sunday, October 16, 2005
TIME:
12:43 am EDT
CAMERA:
Phillips ToUcam Pro (640x480) with Baader Planetarium IR-Pass Filter
LOCATION:
Owl Observatory - Kalamazoo Nature Center
INSTRUMENT:
Meade 12" LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain (with Meade 2x Barlow Lens)
PROCESSING:
Original images obtained with K3CCDTools.  RegiStax 3.0 aligned and stacked 344 of 601 images.  Wavelet filters adjusted with RegiStax.  Further enhancements made with Adobe Photoshop 7.0.
COMMENTS:
The largest feature visible in this image is Mare Erythraeum.  To the north is the Tharsis region, which is the location of several massive volcanoes (not visible here of course).  The seeing was generally poor when then image was acquired, so I hope to reimage this region later.