Mars: I shot this during the same session as my Moon shot earlier this week. Celestron C8 on the AVX imaging with the Celestron Skyris 236C color CMOS camera. The viewing was...

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Nov 9, 2016 21:27:01 #

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

I shot this during the same session as my Moon shot earlier this week.
Celestron C8 on the AVX imaging with the Celestron Skyris 236C color CMOS camera.
The viewing was absolutely awful for deeper sky, the moon quivered but Mars was jumping like a cricket in a frying pan.
I had a dickens of a time getting close with my focus. It didn't help that I had added a Barlow lens to the snout of the video cam. Not the entire Barlow, just the lens. This has worked pretty well in the past and I needed the extra mag.
Cleaned up a bit in the new Photoshop CC 2017 to remove some serious halo.

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Nov 9, 2016 21:33:20 #

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

Albuqshutterbug wrote:

I shot this during the same session as my Moon sho... (show quote)

Nice work Jim I can make out quite-a-bit of detail.
Craig

Nov 9, 2016 21:50:45 #

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

CraigFair wrote:

Nice work Jim I can make out quite-a-bit of detail.
Craig

Thanks Craig.
I don't know how far off Mars is but it's not all that close right now making it more of a challenge.
As Nike says, " Just Do It!" and see what you get.

Nov 9, 2016 23:25:10 #

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Is that whiteish colorization on the right one of the poles?

Nov 10, 2016 08:17:46 #

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

Albuqshutterbug wrote:

Thanks Craig.
I don't know how far off Mars is but it's not all that close right now making it more of a challenge.
As Nike says, " Just Do It!" and see what you get.

I agree - the 'phase' shows that it is on the far side of the sun, at least obliquely. That makes it at least 6 or 7 times as far away as when the Earth passes between it and the sun!

Nov 10, 2016 08:54:15 #

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Good shooting Jim!
Nice to see how the camera can reach out and touch Mars.

"Just do it!" is my credo.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Nov 22, 2016 09:27:11 #

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

Is that whiteish colorization on the right one of the poles?

It may be but I don't have anything to compare to at the moment.
Sorry I'm not much help.

Nov 22, 2016 09:28:57 #

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

Bloke wrote:

I agree - the 'phase' shows that it is on the far side of the sun, at least obliquely. That makes it at least 6 or 7 times as far away as when the Earth passes between it and the sun!

Thanks Bloke,
Yes it is indeed pretty far out but then so is Jupiter.
I'm not sure who is faster and whether we are gaining or losing ground.
Mars I think is falling farther behind.

Nov 22, 2016 09:30:14 #

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

SonnyE wrote:

Good shooting Jim!
Nice to see how the camera can reach out and touch Mars.

"Just do it!" is my credo.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Thanks Sonny.
I have been derelict in replying to comments but I am trying to catch up..
So no that's not blood, its Catsup..

Nov 22, 2016 22:26:38 #

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

Albuqshutterbug wrote:

Thanks Bloke,
Yes it is indeed pretty far out but then so is Jupiter.
I'm not sure who is faster and whether we are gaining or losing ground.
Mars I think is falling farther behind.

I don't know, and I would have to dig out my magazines to check. Does anyone else get frustrated by 'Astronomy' magazine not publishing the proper month at the right time?
I had the December magazine back in October! I have written to them, but just get a stock answer about publishing schedules... Seems to me, if you are writing about things which can be forecast years (or decades, or sometimes even centuries!) in advance, how hard can it be to put the details for a given month in the issue which prints that month? [end rant]

Anyway, I think that Jupiter is still on this side of the Sun, since it is up most of the night. Its orbit is further out than Mars, of course, but since Mars is coming around from behind the Sun, it is actually much further away. Solar system mechanics can get to be quite tricky at times!

Nov 22, 2016 22:41:44 #

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

Bloke wrote:

I don't know, and I would have to dig out my magaz... (show quote)

http://www.theplanetstoday.com/

Nov 22, 2016 22:59:13 #

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

CraigFair wrote:

http://www.theplanetstoday.com/

Thanks for that! Useful view, gives a better idea. I see that I was a little bit wrong, and pretty much *all* the planets are on the far side of the Sun except Uranus - imagine *that* being the nearest planet to us??? Jupiter *is* further away than Mars right now, whoda thunk it...

Nov 23, 2016 11:16:09 #

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Albuqshutterbug wrote:

Thanks Sonny.
I have been derelict in replying to comments but I am trying to catch up..
So no that's not blood, its Catsup..

Well now, there you go making me think again... (a rare occasion, I know...)
Red Planet and red stuff.
I always wondered about the difference between Ketchup, and Catsup. (The latter brings to mind a coughed up hairball.)
Appears it cooks down to an advertising ploy...
And now... you know the rest of the story.

Nov 23, 2016 13:24:19 #

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

Bloke wrote:

I know Jupiter is way out there and yes it is ironic that we are closer to Uranus than I would care to be.
;o)
I sent the link that Craig sent you to Sonny. So I had a good idea of where it was.
I think it's gaining on us but I am not sure.
There was a really nice story about the birth of Jupiter and how Saturn saved it from plunging into the Sun on Discover the other night.
Without Jupiter we wouldn't be here because it would have gobbled up all of the material to make us and then taken it all with it to the Sun.

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