From: "Milton Aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: October 27, 2005 3:36:21 PM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Mars Dust Storm Movie
Hi Folks;
It's a bit crude, but here is a movie
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Planetary/Mars_Oct_21to23_2005L.mov
showing the dust storm evolution over 3 nights. These are all taken
with my MAK 127 mm aperture scope at 4090 mm focal length (F/32) using
a 16 bit color Flea FireWire camera at 30 fps.
the time difference between each frame represents about 15 minutes of
real time, so 1 second (12 frames) of play in the movie represents 3
hours of rotation. I also changed the colors from my original
composite sequences, so that it's more in line with what other people
are using (all I see visually the scope is a reddish bright disk with
vague greenish markings on it and maybe a hint of blue polar hood -
color is subjective).
Note that the dust clouds are more yellowish, where as the Mars
surface is a bit more reddish. Also it's interesting to see how much
sunlight the clouds reflect crossing the sunlit side of the west limb
or when they are perpendicular to the observer, especially in the
middle Oct 22 series. The asymmetry of the polar hood due to axial
tilt is also pretty obvious too.
Milton Aupperle