Mars in 2003

Summary:

• ANIMATION and Cartography
• september 25
• september 20
• september 18
• august 23 (MY BEST!)
• august 20
• august 19
• august 16 (evening)
• august 16 (morning)
• august 13
• august 12
• august 6
• august 2
• july 27
• the main instrument

Inspired by an article on Sky&Telescope of February 2004, I've realized a cartography of the whole planet using the images captured in July and August 2003. The main steps are:

• select the best images for every longitude on Mars
• project the images on a cilindrical projection (I've used Iris software)
• compose the projection of different locations in a global map (I've used Photoshop)
• reproject the map on a sphere to realize an animation of Mars (I've wrote a Matlab program to automatize this step)

MARS ANIMATION Click here to download the AVI animation (730kb, DivX 5 required) (this gif movie is only a preview)

20 september 2003

18 september 2003

23 august 2003 ( M Y    B E S T !!! )

20 august 2003

19 august 2003

16 august 2003 (evening)

16 august 2003 (morning)

13 august 2003

12 august 2003

6 august 2003

Click here for an AVI movie of the 3 hours of observations. (Div-X 5 codec required)

2 august 2003

27 july 2003

The main instrument used for the best Mars images: the Buchroeder Trischiefspiegler of Alfredo Zanazzo, 318mm diameter, f/20. The observers are Lorenzo Comolli and Fabio Acquarone. Photo by Gianni Ariot.

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