Mars through Celestron C8 and Philips ToUCam

[notubeplease]

nice catch! ;) i remember seeing Mars this big through the 6" long focal achromatic refractor at the public Observatory, during the great opposition. btw, those static dark spots are in fact dust specks on the camera sensor, not on the light path - you can not actually see anything on the glass elements, unless they are in the focal plane of one positive lens put in front of the sensor. clear skies!

[AstroOldenburg]

@notubeplease

Yes indeed the glass plate over the sensor was full of dust :-/

[pater429]

Southpole ice cap is schrunken

[pater429]

is this true color?

[AstroOldenburg]

@pater429

More or less, but not really. It's true color by using the automatic white balance of the PCVC740K camera.

True color in astrophotography is almost impossible instead you have a calibrated color scale at the position of the object (like the rovers on Mars have).

[pater429]

@AstroOldenburg its kinda dissapointing to see it like they told us.

i am hoping to see structions on the moon and mars, i mean common they have a very good reason to lie to us, multiple reasons actualy..

[AstroOldenburg]

@pater429

Didn't really know what you mean :-(

There ARE real structures and you can see them. All bloops and grains which are following the movement of Mars (or Moon) are real! But static ones (same place on the screen) are - also real - dust on your scope or camera.

[Jules7892]

I own the CELESTRON 1978 C8 & what I saw even on Poorer Hazier Humid nights is100%/100% what I saw during the Mars Oppositions of 1986 & 1988. Its to bad, because I had Fuji HG Iso 400 Film 24 Exposure in my Freezer 3 of my SLR Film Cameras,Olympus OM-2n,PENTAX K1000,& PENTAX P3N or P30N were awaiting Lazy Observing Jules to use his Telexender & EyePiece Projection on Mars in the 1988 Mars Opossition ready to Splash All Over ASTRONOMY Magazine like l did in December 1982 Astronomy Magazine Moon!

[Jules7892]

I own the CELESTRON 1978 C8 & what I saw even on Poorer Hazier Humid nights is100%/100% what I saw during the Mars Oppositions of 1986 & 1988. Its to bad, because I had Fuji HG Iso 400 Film 24 Exposure in my Freezer 3 of my SLR Film Cameras,Olympus OM-2n, PENTAX K1000, & PENTAX P3N or P30N were awaiting Lazy Observing Jules to use his Telexender & EyePiece Projection on Mars in the 1988 Mars Opossition ready to Splash All Over ASTRONOMY Magazine like l did in December 1982 Astronomy Lunar-Detail

[juki0h]

it looks soo close, but its not

[artemis0113]

Neat!!!

[barackson]

You must get a better telescope than this

[TelescopeAtNight]

@barackson You are joking???

[barackson]

@TelescopeAtNight No, there is telescopes that produce better images than this

[TelescopeAtNight]

@barackson Of course but this video is looking very well indeed.

[AstroOldenburg]

@barackson

You are right. But mind, this video is from 2003!

Many time for technical evolution ;-)

[mykylc]

Nice and clear without being stacked....I'd love to see a stacked image.

[astroval1]

Great video!

[vwlover94]

wow this is freaken nice, i never seen a mars video based on a c8 nice job