A Month Watching Mars by AstronomyMan

Photography • Space • posted on Feb 08, 2006

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"The chances against anything manlike on Mars with a Webcam are a million to one," he said. (HGWells) Every 5 or so days during November 2005 I got my trusty 8" teslescope and my ever faithful ToUcam out and took a series of pictures of Mars. Each picture is taken with an 8" Newtonian, operating at F15, stacking the best 10% of 1800 exposures at 1/33sec exposure rate from my cheap webcam. The pictures down the middle are mine, the pictures down the right are simulations from a planetarium software package to identify what the features in my photo's are. A day on Mars is 24hrs and 37 minutes. So each day, at the same observing time, Mars appears to have revolved 15

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fotogSTAN

8:44AM | Wed, 08 February 2006

I too watched Mars when it was at its closest approach. But not having anything close to a telescope, my Mars was just a dot. But it was still thrilling knowing I was looking at another planet. Wouldn't it be great if someday, we could easily take shots like the ones from your software sim? Thanks for sharing these.

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Onslow

10:00AM | Wed, 08 February 2006

Superb shots and a great presentation with the sim. shots showing features and naming them :)

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jcv2

1:02PM | Wed, 08 February 2006

Ha ha, watch out for extraterrestials believing the historical documents - they might come and ask you to assist them in a interstellar war! ;) Fantastic work, love to see all these details! I have a Mars globe here and love to spin it and enjoy all the special places on it! Gorgeous work! :)

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