Posts Made By: Wesley Higgins

GY,

Excellent Mars image , the way the Sun light is reflecting
off the South half of the image makes it look sort of 3D

Thanks for posting,

Wes Higgins

Hi Mark,

Great image, the best digital camera
Mars yet IMO .

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Hi Brian,

Super image , good seeing sure makes a difference
alright .
Where are you located ?
I'm processing some Mars images now that I took
this morning also .

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Johnnes,

Fascinating animation , great images too .
It sure would be great if some people from different
parts of the world could get together and make
a Mars animation with full a full rotation ,
I guess they would all need to have the same image
size and other things .

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Jose,

Great! image , I think you just raised the bar
for digital camera Mars images , the best I have
seen so far .

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Hi Rick,

Great image , in the new Registax did you process
your image using the new option for RRGB ?

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Hi Joe,

Very nice Mars images ,
have you been using the auto color balance ?
If not put a check in the auto box and let the
software search for a balance for about 10 seconds
and then un-check the box to freeze the color balance ,
this might help .

Thanks,

Wes Higgins




The photos of Mars I've been getting are extremely red. In fact I found that they have no blue component at all, so I'm wondering if I'm under the blue threshold for my camera to capture. Here's the specifics:

Celestron 5i, f/30, ToUCam, 1/50 sec exposures, gain set to minimum. If I drop the shutter speed down to 1/25 sec (the lowest setting) the image on the PC screen looks burned, and even at 1/33 sec it seems too bright in so I assumed that would make it worse.
Each photo is a composite of 300 frames taken using k3ccd tools and processed in Registrax.
Left image: Aug 10, right image: Aug 19 (note the larger apparent size and smaller polar cap).

Do I need to increase the gain in order to balence the color better, even though that will increase the noise?Thanks for any suggestions,
-Joe

Wei,

Amazing images, I can not stop looking at them.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Hi Jake,

You and Wei have got some amazing images,
how well did Olympus Mons show visually ? .


Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Jose,

So many good images this morning , very
good image .

Thanks,

Wes Higgins