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MARS 2022/2023 APPARITION

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Mars Compendium

Although this Mars apparition was plagued by poor seeing and Mars being smaller overall, plus low in the sky for us, the images above represents a compendium of the best colour images from the 2022/2023 Mars apparition.

They range from when Mars was still far away and only about 5 arc-seconds in diameter through to opposition and beyond.

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Janurary 5th 2023

Well after opposition, the following colour and individual filter (monchrome) images display a Mars

with clouds covering a substantial amount of the Martian disk, giving it a very “atmospheric” appearance…

Notwithstanding the pun! 😊

December 14th 2022

Individual and colour images of Mars with Syrtis Major past the Centrl Meridian plus Sinus Sabaeus & Sinus Meridiani…the blue filter image

best revealing Mars’ clouds on this night.

December 12th 2022

A good image in the conditions, in monochrome as well as colour showing the Valles Marineris vista.

November 22nd 2022

Monochrome as well as a colour images revealing Tritonis, Gomer Sinus and M. Cimerium through Zephyria,

plus an extensive North Polar Hood and cap.

November 16th 2022

Syrtis Major as well as Tritonis and Gome Sinus are prominent in this vista of Mars from Nov. 16th.

November 3rd 2022

Mare Acidalium, Aurorae Sinus and the Oxus/Indus extensions etc are prominent in this view of Mars.

October 26th 2022

Another Valles Marineris view with extensive haze/cloud cover over both the North & South poles of Mars here.

An ir610nm filter view on the same night.

Another colour image from this night.

Earlier the same night…

Even earlier still that night: looking at this one and the images above in ascending order reveals the rotation of Mars from left to right.

September 30th 2022

In the imge below and the following animation you can see that dust has obscured a large area on the Martian disk.

September 24th 2022

Here, about a week before the images above you can really see the dust clouds/storm coverage on the Maritan disk.

It appears like a giant hand or fork reaching from the South pole to about 2/3 way up towards the other pole, with some white cloud visible around the Northern polar regions.

September 23rd 2022

Only a day earlier than the above images another view of these dust storms in mono, colour and an animation.

August 8th 2022

Mars is much smaller in the following images revealing different vistas of the planet, well before opposition.

July 31st 2022

July 5th 20222

May 11th 2022

April 15th 2022

The image below (April 15th) and the following image (April 6th) are notewhorthy for the amount of detail revealed for such a small and distant Mars captures, only slightly more than 5 arc-seconds in diameter.

April 6th 2022

 

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