Mars and Saturn on February 1-2, 2012

Blogged by Aurélie Le Fort-Beunink on February 7, 2012 and tagged with Sample Images, Mars, Saturn.

2 nights I faced cold weather (-8C° and lower) and winds to do some more Mars imaging. I also did one Saturn RGB serie which turned out pretty well with as result my finest Saturn image yet. Mars is still getting closer and some nice details can be seen now, in these images clouds can be even seen hanging around Olympus Mons.

On 2 february the seeing was much worse than the night before that but I still managed some detail with again the Olympus Mons area.

Equipment used was C 9.25, DMK 21AU618.AS and Astronomik RGB filters. Processing with Castrator, Registax and Autostakkert 2 and finally Photoshop CS3.

Edwin Pottillius, Belgium

Mars - Edwin Pottillius

Mars - Edwin Pottillius

Mars - Edwin Pottillius

Saturn - Edwin Pottillius

Saturn - Edwin Pottillius

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