2016 Mars Opposition
Web Camera Images
July 19, 2016 at 2:29 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%. 200 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was average (~3 out of 5). South is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 14.3".
June 6, 2016 at 5:07 UT.
Meade LXD55 8 inch SCT, Philips SPC900NC web camera, and 5X barlow. Camera settings: 1/33 second exposure, brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 51%. 300 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was poor to average (~2 to 3 out of 5). South is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 18.5".
June 6, 2016 at 4:38 UT.
Meade LXD55 8 inch SCT, Philips SPC900NC web camera, and 3X barlow. Camera settings: 1/50 second exposure, brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 52%. 200 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was poor to average (~2 to 3 out of 5). South is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 18.5".
June 5, 2016 at 5:19 UT.
Meade LXD55 8 inch SCT, Philips SPC900NC web camera, and 5X barlow. Camera settings: 1/33 second exposure, brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 51%. 300 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was average (~3 out of 5). South is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 18.5".
June 5, 2016 at 4:45 UT.
Meade LXD55 8 inch SCT, Philips SPC900NC web camera, and 3X barlow. Camera settings: 1/50 second exposure, brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 52%. 500 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was average (~3 out of 5). South is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 18.5".
June 3, 2016 at 5:25 UT.
Meade LXD55 8 inch SCT, Philips SPC900NC web camera, and 5X barlow. Camera settings: 1/33 second exposure, brightness: 50%, saturation: 100%, gamma: 0%, and gain: 51%. 300 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was average (~3 out of 5). South is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 18.6".
June 3, 2016 at 4:40 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: 25%. 400 out of 1200 frames stacked with Registax. Video sequences captured with K3CCDTools. Seeing was average (~3 out of 5). South is up. The angular diameter of Mars was 18.6".