I started late for Mars this season. 

These images were taken with a C11  on an AP900GTO mount. My imager is a  DMK21BF04 monochrome camera.  A Homeyer motorized filter wheel was used to produce an RGB image.  I used an Astrophysics Barcon working at 3X with an Astrophysics Maxbright Diagonal as my UV-IR blocking filter.    To capture I used  The Imaging Source IC Capture 2.0.  For processing, I used Registax V5 by Cor Berrevoets.

I had a 3 hour run this evening!!  Seeing was not good at the start of my imaging session because Mars  was still very low.   But things improved as Mars got higher.

My images start with the Tharsis Volcanic region with the distinctive clouds above the volcanoes especially Olympus Mons on the left.  The image ends around the Mare Cimmerium region.

Note the bright area at the NPR.

The animation below was done using Microsoft Movie Maker.  It was interesting to make this as the results are far better than those made using gif animation!

You can get the video at:

http://astro.christone.net/mars/mars20100206.avi

or

http://astro.christone.net/mars/mars20100206.wmv

Seeing was terrible this evening.  I only got this image before clouds rolled in.

The clouds above Olympus Mons can be seen in this image.  There are other cloud spots in the Tharsis region.

The evening started clear but turned cloudy around 10pm.  Seeing was variable.  I finally found out what is causing the dark streaks on my Mars image.  It seems that my camera has these artifacts when running at 60fps.  I will slow down my frame rate during my next imaging run.

Mare Cimmerium  and Sirenum can be seen in the southern hemisphere.  Setting on the right is the white clouds above Olympus Mons.   There are some clouds at Ausornia and Electris at the south.   There are also some clouds at Syrtis Major.

The dark bar on the NPC is probably artifact from my camera. 

Seeing was variable this evening. 

The NPR is very well resolved.  The bright polar cap is contrasted with the polar hood above it! Note the equatorial cloud.  Mare Cimmerium can be seen close to the CM.  Note the two vertical streaks resolved in Mare Cimmerium.

Syrtis Major is rising on the left.   

Note the 1 hour animation.

The sky was partially cloudy today.  I had to fight the clouds this evening.  Seeing was very variable.

Syrtis Major can be seen on the right.  Mare Cimmerum is setting.   Note the faint clouds at the chaos region.  

Seeing wasn't the great this evening because I wasn't able to cool my OTA properly.  The final image however came out okay

Syrtis Major  is prominent in this image.   Syrtis Major is well resolved but there are no blue clouds today.  These seems to be some clouds around the Hellas region.

Note the dark arc in the North Polar Cap (NPR).  There are faint clouds around the Ismenius Lacus Region.  Where there's a prominent cloud at Chaos.