From: "Raoul Schlesser" <gr842@yahoo.com>

Date: November 14, 2005 2:19:19 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: mars at 20 arc seconds

Excellent image, Alan!

I like your way of not overprocessing details... how did you go about the colors? Did you 

calibrate your filters/camera to reproduce daylight colors correctly, or did you adjust the 

colors more freely to reproduce an image similar to what Mars looked like in the scope?

Just curious, as I have a number of images waiting to be processed... hopefully soon.

Best,

raoul

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Alan Friedman <alan@g...> wrote:

Hi group -

I had a chance over the weekend to process this image taken October 30. 

It was to be the only opportunity I had to image mars in its foray over 

20 arc seconds:

http://www.geocities.com/alanfgag/mars103005.jpg

The detail is soft unfortunately. I spent some time preparing the LRGB 

composite in Photoshop paying attention to the color interpretation.

I will be an old gray mare the next time mars gets this big or this 

bright.

best,

Alan