geoflewis Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 I had a lot of fun following Mars this past apparition and have condensed my experience over approximately 4 months into the 2 images below. The first is a 360° annotated map of Mars with North shown at the top. The second is a montage of some of the manyl images that I captured. As I used different amplification and capture ROI during the apparation, the individual images have been resized to the same arcsec/px in order to accurately show the changing apparent diameter and phase as Mars approached Earth then started to move away again. As with the 360° map, all images are shown with North at the top. I hope that you find these compilation images both interesting and informative. Thanks for looking. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Excellent images Geof. Extremely well presented and very informative. I think an APOD is due. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaDec Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 I agree with Terry! Those are amazing images, amongst the best I've ever seen and beautifully presented. The map in particular is an absolute first, really remarkable. You should definitely submit them and thanks for sharing your incredible work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoflewis Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 10 hours ago, TerryMcK said: Excellent images Geof. Extremely well presented and very informative. I think an APOD is due. 1 hour ago, RaDec said: I agree with Terry! Those are amazing images, amongst the best I've ever seen and beautifully presented. The map in particular is an absolute first, really remarkable. You should definitely submit them and thanks for sharing your incredible work. Thanks both, I’m pleased that you like them. I’ve never submitted anything to APOD, so no idea how to go about that. I did look at submitting them to the Sky @ Night magazine, but from reading the small print it seemed that I had to give them my copyright, so I haven’t taken that any further. I have them on my Astrobin page, but neither of them got flagged even as a top pick nomination, never mind IOD, so maybe they are not as good as you think…..🤷♂️ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaDec Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 I doubt that Geof - I've been around years and years and apart from Damian Peach, I don't think I've seen the equivalent. I think with a lot of forum activity, some regular posters always attract lots of comments whereas some very worthy images seem to be ignored. It's just the way forums work I guess and I've known friends get totally discumknockerated about it and quit posting. I've never managed anything worthy of an APOD anyway, but I did get a picture of comet Holmes published as POTM in Astronomy Now a few years ago; and £25 to boot! Well worth the £000's the image cost me LOL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcK Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 It's quite easy Geof. I have submitted images (to no success so far 🙄 ) but the process is very straight forward. Have a look here https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html Hannah @Hannahgracesubmitted her image of Thor's Helmet and got an APOD which is very unusual for a UK based astroimager as the APOD people seem to focus more on other countries for an unknown reason. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoflewis Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 1 hour ago, TerryMcK said: It's quite easy Geof. I have submitted images (to no success so far 🙄 ) but the process is very straight forward. Have a look here https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html Hannah @Hannahgracesubmitted her image of Thor's Helmet and got an APOD which is very unusual for a UK based astroimager as the APOD people seem to focus more on other countries for an unknown reason. Thanks Terry, I have just submitted both of them, so now to wait and see.....🤔 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaDec Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Let us know how you get on. Good luck! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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