From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: January 24, 2010 5:12:38 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Cloudy Mars from Cloudy Buffalo

Hi Alan;

Very nice image.

It's interesting to see that the bluish clouds are over most of the larger volcanoes (assuming I figured out the correct local date time).

What focal length and exposure times were you using?

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle

On 24-Jan-10, at 4:49 PM, Alan Friedman wrote:

Hi all,

Winter has afforded only two shots at Mars this winter, both with the same face facing Buffalo:

http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/mars_20100122.html

Seeing fair - about 5/10, transparency good, gusty winds.

I used this opportunity to try several cameras and camera settings... this is the first I've processed, using the PGR Scorpion camera (1600x1200) at its 800x600 setting. Image scale is smaller than I'm used to with the pixel binning enabled in the camera.

clear skies and best wishes,

Alan