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Web Camera Images

July 20, 2014 at 1:25 UT.

Meade LXD55 8 inch SCT, Philips SPC900NC web camera, and 3X barlow. Camera settings: 1/33 second exposure, brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 30%. 200 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was average (~3 out of 5). North is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 8.35".

Jul. 4, 2014 at 2:00 UT.

Meade LXD55 8 inch SCT, Philips SPC900NC web camera, and 5X barlow. Camera settings: 1/25 second exposure, brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 49%. The gain was set too high. 200 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was average to good (~3 to 4 out of 5). North is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 9.21".

July 4, 2014 at 1:23 UT.

Meade LXD55 8 inch SCT, Philips SPC900NC web camera, and 3X barlow. Camera settings: 1/33 second exposure, brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 41%. The gain was set too high. 200 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was average to good (~3 to 4 out of 5). North is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 9.21".

June 13, 2014 at 2:10 UT.

Meade LXD55 8 inch SCT, Philips SPC900NC web camera, and 5X barlow. Camera settings: 1/25 second exposure, brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 40%. 200 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was average (~3 out of 5). North is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 10.75".

June 13, 2014 at 1:33 UT.

Meade LXD55 8 inch SCT, Philips SPC900NC web camera, and 3X barlow. Camera settings: 1/25 second exposure, brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 30%. 300 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was average (~3 out of 5). North is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 10.75".

April 19, 2014 at 4:54 UT.

Meade LXD55 8 inch SCT, Philips SPC900NC web camera, and 5X barlow. Camera settings: 1/25 second exposure, brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 32%. 125 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was average (~3 out of 5). North is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 15.10".

April 19, 2014 at 4:06 UT.

Meade LXD55 8 inch SCT, Philips SPC900NC web camera, and 3X barlow. Camera settings: 1/33 second exposure, brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 32%. 200 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was average (~3 out of 5). North is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 15.10".

March 15, 2014 at 9:11 UT.

Meade LXD55 8 inch SCT, Philips SPC900NC web camera, and 5X barlow. Camera settings: 1/25 second exposure, brightness: 43%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 27%. 150 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was good (~4 out of 5). North is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 13.18".

March 15, 2014 at 8:54 UT.

Meade LXD55 8 inch SCT, Philips SPC900NC web camera, and 3X barlow. Camera settings: 1/33 second exposure, brightness: 43%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 24%. 150 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was good (~4 out of 5). North is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 13.18".