The Dutch Observatory

March 27, 2010 on 4:24 pm | In Mars, Planets, Uncategorized | Comments Off

I did setup after we came home from visiting a friend and decided to make a series of images of Mars. The weather was nice, and seeing was not too bad, although it went bad at the end.  I ended up making 13 images seperated 10 minutes from each other, so it spans 2hours.  Click on the thumbnail below for the best image of the series and click here for a two hour Mars rotation animation.  You can see the conditions getting bad at the end.  Clouds over Aethiopsis and clouds or mist extending beyond Aeria at the preceding limb.