Mars 2005 by jared99

Photography • Space • posted on Nov 25, 2005

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Mars was positioned favorably this year. It won't look this good again for 18 years. Images were taken with a Nikon D100 at prime focus of a 14" SCT. Many images were taken and "stacked" with RegiStax. The left Mars is a stack of 64 images and the right mars is a stack of 500. Thanks for looking and commenting.

Comments (16)

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PeeWee05

12:54AM | Fri, 25 November 2005

You're kidding me, shot with a regular camera?! Wow - wish I had seen it!

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zulaan

2:11AM | Fri, 25 November 2005

Fantastic work !!!!

john010766

3:30AM | Fri, 25 November 2005

Excellent work, what were the settings for the camera? reallllll long exposure I bet? Fantastic keep it up S

junior_2004

4:36AM | Fri, 25 November 2005

Great work! But where are the werewolfs? Have a nice week-end!

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meselfr

6:04AM | Fri, 25 November 2005

Cool... Excellent work..

sailor_ed

8:21AM | Fri, 25 November 2005

Another wonderful shot; I can almost see the canals! ;-) You will have to explain "stacked"..

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jcv2

8:58AM | Fri, 25 November 2005

Incredibly detailed capture of this planet even on its closes passing by still so far away! Excellent work, very impressive! :)

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BigDen

11:01AM | Fri, 25 November 2005

SCT stands for Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope, one with a 14" diameter mirror array. Expensive and very nice. I'm looking for one myself, on the cheap of course. Great Image

jared99

1:25PM | Fri, 25 November 2005

"Stacking" is a method of taking many images and averaging them into a single, higher quality image. I know nothing about the algorithms involved -- I just select the images to use and the software goes to it.

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RRmedic

3:45PM | Fri, 25 November 2005

A+A+A+A+A+ WOW! 500! damn thats alot! incrdible photo!

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jocko500

8:22PM | Fri, 25 November 2005

wow i never even saw mars like this

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Onslow

3:38PM | Sat, 26 November 2005

Superb photography !!!

Deagol

11:11PM | Sat, 26 November 2005

Most impressive. I looked at it through a 4.7 inch refractor in October and it didn't look this good. Congratulations.

Georgy

12:02PM | Sun, 27 November 2005

"WOW" this is really neat.

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tizjezzme

9:14PM | Mon, 28 November 2005

"Stack of 64 images" & "stack of 500 images" .. my gosh, I cannot imagine... this is one FANTASTIC presentation of our Mars. I'd love to be able to watch you and how you did this ....

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