Mars on 10th October 2005 Home

The simulations on the right are from Mr. T. Ikemura and show Mars as it was expected to be seen at the date and time indicated. I am indebted to Mr. Ikemura for permission to use these images.   Mr. Ikemura's images are shown with north at the top.  My images are not exactly north at the top;  they are rotated through a small angle.

Mars on 10th October 2005.  Mars was 74 million Kilometres (0.495 AU) from Earth and subtended an angle of almost 19 seconds of arc.
Mars is getting closer, and brighter.  I'm disappointed with these images.  I'm not sure why they are not better.  For the coloured image, I balanced the colours during capture just as I did last time;  (Click on the image to return to the Mars 2005 page.)
Date and Time: 10th October 2005 at 01:45 (vis) and 01:55 (IR) UT
Camera: ToUcam 740K
Telescope: LX200 with X2 lens.
Capture: K3CCDTools. Visible image: Low gamma, high saturation, 1/33", 5% gain, 656 frames.
       IR image: Low gamma, B/W, 1/25", 33% gain, 716 frames.
Processing: Registax. Visible image: 72 frames stacked. Wavelets 1-3 = 10,
histogram 5 - 190. Colours aligned.
       IR image: 97 frames stacked. Wavelets 1-3 = 10, histogram 10-170.
Mars simulation for 051010 0200 UT

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