How to identify surface features on an image for a newbie?

[Adam Y]

Just wondering whether there is a good means of determining which features I have captured?  Things like the Great Red Spot are obvious, and other parts of Jupiter, but what about Mars or the Moon?  How can I know which features are showing, short of scouring every image on the internet and hoping to match them up?

 

I was thinking winJupos had some sort of feature, and i was able to get an image that looks close to mine by selecting the date and time and lat/long of my observation session.  But the features aren't labelled.  Any tips?  cheers

adam

[Graeme]

You could perhaps set the date and time of your image in Stellarium and then zoom in to get the detail. I use this a lot to determine the positions of Jupiter's moons etc. I just tried it on Mars, that works too. Then there are loads of labelled images of the Moon and the planets on the internet. 

 

Regards

 

Graeme