The Dutch Observatory

August 24, 2009 on 9:31 am | In Mars, Planets | Comments Off

I had planned on imaging Jupiter last night, but as I woke up at 1:00am, Jupiter was already behind the trees in front of my house, so I decided to give Mars a try at 5:00 am. 

Yes, this is my first image of Mars for the 2009/2010 apparation, and not the hair dryer which was in front of the corrector plate a lot longer than Mars was.  The dewing was very bad, however I had just enough time to get a complete set of AVIs to create this one image.

Syrtis Major can be seen at the following limb as well as Hellas and the northern polar cap is very visible, especially in the blue image.