MARS APPROACH

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IR Filter Effect

Details are completely lost at the left Mars image due to unfocused IR ligth on CCD. On the other hand only visible ligth was let to pass to be focused on CCD at the right Mars image.

Mars Closest Approach

Starmax 127 and Vesta 675

Eyepiece Projection resulting 2x

Captured w/K3CCDTools, Processed w/Registax2

28 August 2003, Istanbul

(Rotation of Mars clearly visible within 3 hours.)

Martian Atmosphere

Starmax 127 and Vesta 675

Eyepiece Projection resulting 3.24x

Captured w/K3CCDTools, Processed w/Registax2

28 August 2003, Istanbul

Blue hinge due to Martian atmosphere is visible at the north of Mars (South is up)

Reprocessed Mars

Mars Image was reporcessed using histogram in order to exegerrate color and contrast.

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