The Mars Images Efrain Morales sent us this week are amazing! The red planet in the night sky has become incredibly clear in his pictures. Several atmospheric and terrestrial features of Mars are visible with sharp resolution. Efrain took these pictures with his DMK 21AF04.AS astronomy camera on 21st of January.

Mars Images - Click to open the original (1098x980)

Here is the quote of his email:

On this session I had a clear window with exceptional results with my trusty DMK 21AF04.AS. As you can see high altitude clouds (Orogrpahic) on the limbs (terminator) and Mount Olympus Mons the largest volcano in our solar system and the North Polar Hood decreasing in size as the summer soltice is approaching. Its diam. currently at 14.0 at close approach will be at 14.1. on the 27th.

Thank you Efrain! Clear Sky!

Here is a Mars picture taken by Javier Beltran Jovani with his DBK 21AU04.AS. He captured this stunning image on 2nd of January, 2010.

Mars

Quote of his email:

Camera: DBK 21AUO4.AS
Telescope: Obsession 18”
Platform: Tom Osypowski
Frames: 836
Registax, Astra Image

The following image of the Moon is submitted by French astronomy amateur William Guyot-Lénat. William took the picture on 25th of Dec, 2009 with his DMK 41AU02.AS. This is also the first image he has ever sent to us.

Here is the translation of his email:

I have used DMK 41AU02.AS for only a short while. On Christmas eve I was able to do some test shots with Astro-Physics 130 F6, Barlow AP x 1.7 and ultima x 2.

There was a lot of turbulence. AVI movie is composed of a thousand pictures. Image process by Avistack.

Many Thanks to William!

French astronomy photographer Laurent Langelez captured this image of Mars on Jan.09, 2010. The camera he used is DMK 31AU03.AS.

Mars Image

His email is roughly translated as below:

Picture of Mars taken in -12 ° c.

Newton Kkywatcher 254mm on EQ6, Barlow x2 + Barlow x1,6

Astronomik red filter

DMK 31AU03.AS

Software: Registax5

Encountered the problem of ice on the secondary mirror and passage of turbulence

Zoomed to 200%

Merci Laurent!

Polish astronomy amateur Bogdan Matyja has  previously sent us one lunar image. This time he used his DMK 21AU04.AS took some pictures of the Moon and made a 3D Moon image which depicts the northwest region of the Moon. To take a look at this picture, you are gonna need the green-red glasses.

3D Moon Image - Click to open the original

Bogdan sent us the picture on 18th of January. And here is what he wrote us in the email:

This is my Moon 3D. Mosaic of 10 images. Working in Registax and Photoshop.
Observatory in Zabrze, Poland
My equipment: DMK 21AU04.AS B / W, Celestron C6N, EQ3 mount

Well good job Bogdan! Thank you!