Mars 2020
Opposition: 13 October 2020
Apparent size at opposition: 22.4"
Apparent size at opposition: 22.4"
November 22, 2020
Fair / Good seeing. Taken during a live stream with the Royal Astronomical Society for the National Astronomy Week (UK). 20mins data. View centered over Valis Marineris. The ongoing dust storm is well seen, now appears to affect a large part of the planet.
November 17, 2020
Good seeing. Taken during a live stream with the Royal Astronomical Society for the National Astronomy Week (UK). Dust activity seems to progress further inward completely covering Solis Planum.
November 16, 2020
Good seeing. Taken during a live stream with the Royal Astronomical Society for the National Astronomy Week (UK). Extended "fingers" of dust appear of Solis Planum.
November 14, 2020
Good seeing. 5 mins combined data taken during a live stream with the Royal Astronomical Society for the National Astronomy Week (UK). Now having receeded considerably from the Earth, Mars appears just 17.5" across, however a wealth of surface features can still be resolved.
October 30, 2020
Poor to Fair seeing, 20 mins combined data.
October 9, 2020
Mars at closest approach. Olympus Mons is nicely seen as well as some clouds over Tharsis.
September 26, 2020
A splendid view of Syrtis major as Mars approaches opposition.
September 12/13
A night of excellent seeing conditions. More than 600GB's of recorded data!
A 149-frame animation, from data taken on this night. The rotation of Mars is nicely seen throughout this 3 hour period. Notice the changing shape of the south polar cap. Each frame is the result of stacking 13% (or 2000) of a total of 16,000 frames taken at 270fps. In total, this animation required in excess of 2 million frames to produce.
August 19
Good seeing, Syrtis Major and Hellas prominent.
May 31
Good seeing. Dark markings in the NPC as well as some nice definition in Vallis Marineris.
April 18
Fair seeing for this first image of the apparition.
