March 30, 2004, 02:16 UT. Mars is a mere 4.89 arcseconds in diameter but still shows some surface detail including a bright northern polar region. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/35 (stacked Televue 2x and 1.8x barlows) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was fair (4/10).

December 20, 2003, 00:49 UT. Dust storms continue but appear to be subsiding. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/50 (stacked Televue 2x and 1.8x barlows and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was good (7/10).

December 17, 2003, 01:31 UT. Dust storms rage on Mars. The storms were first detected on December 13, 2003. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/50 (stacked Televue 2x and 1.8x barlows and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was good (7/10).

November 6, 2003, 03:50 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/50 (stacked Televue 2x and 1.8x barlows and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was poor (3-4/10).

October 23, 2003, 02:11 UT.

September 29, 2003, 04:23 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/50 (stacked Televue 2x and 1.8x barlows and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was good (5/10).

September 26, 2003, 4:02 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/50 (stacked Televue 2x and 1.8x barlows and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was poor to fair (3/10).

September 2, 2003, 7:08 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/50 (stacked Televue 2x and 1.8x barlows and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was poor to fair (3-4/10).

September 2, 2003, 6:39 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/27 (Televue 2x barlow). An image of Mars taken at the same scale and orientation is superimposed on the overexposed Mars image. No IR block filter and with dark frame. Deimos (to the right) was magnitude 11.4. Seeing was poor to fair (3-4/10).

August 27, 2003, 7:43 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/50 (stacked Televue 2x and 1.8x barlows and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was poor to fair (3-4/10).

August 24, 2003, 6:55 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and an unmodified Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/25 (Televue 2x barlow). South is up. Phobos is magnitude 10.3 and Deimos is magnitude 11.4. Note the six diffraction spikes from the three spider vanes of my newtonian.

August 24, 2003, 7:43 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/50 (stacked Televue 2x and 1.8x barlows and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was poor to fair (3-4/10). This image was based on stacking only 43 frames from one, 60-second AVI file (600 frames).

August 21, 2003, 7:52 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/50 (stacked Televue 2x and 1.8x barlows and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was fair to good (5-7/10). 

August 18, 2003, 7:20 and 8:39 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/50 (stacked Televue 2x and 1.8x barlows and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was fair to good (5-7/10). 

August 10, 2003, 8:06 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/50 (stacked Televue 2x and 1.8x barlows and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was fair to good (4-5/10). 

August 1, 2003, 09:35 and 10:20 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/45.4 (Televue 2x barlow and stacked Meade 2x barlow and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was fair to good (3-7/10). 

July 29, 2003, 09:19 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/45.4 (Televue 2x barlow and stacked Meade 2x barlow and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was fair (3-4/10). 

July 23, 2003, 10:43 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/45.4 (Televue 2x barlow and stacked Meade 2x barlow and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was fair to good (3-5/10). 

July 16, 2003, 09:57 UT and 10:00 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/45.4 (Televue 2x barlow and stacked Meade 2x barlow and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was fair (3/10). 

July 12, 2003, 10:00 UT and 11:00 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/45.4 (Televue 2x barlow and stacked Meade 2x barlow and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was fair (3/10). 

July 4, 2003, 09:36 UT (left) and 10:42 UT (right). 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/45.4 (Televue 2x barlow and stacked Meade 2x barlow and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was poor to fair (3-5/10). These image capture the start of raging dust storms over the Hellas region of Mars.

June 28, 2003, 10:00 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/45.4 (Televue 2x barlow and stacked Meade 2x barlow and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was poor to fair (3-5/10). This is the result of stacking only 100 frames of about 3,000 (5, 1 minute AVI files @ 10 fps).

 June 27, 2003, 9:39 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/45.4 (Televue 2x barlow and stacked Meade 2x barlow and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was poor (3/10).

June 22, 2003, 9:55 (left) and 10:47 (right) UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/45.4 (Televue 2x barlow and stacked Meade 2x barlow and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was fair (3-5/10).

Color Balance. These are from the same raw frames as above but first color-balanced by using "autocolor" on the moon to set a neutral tone.

  June 14, 2003, 11:05 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/45.4 (Televue 2x barlow and stacked Meade 2x barlow and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was poor to fair (2-3/10).

June 11, 2003, 10:43-10:48 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/45.4 (Televue 2x barlow and stacked Meade 2x barlow and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was poor to fair (2-3/10).

June 6, 2003, 10:38 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/45.4 (Televue 2x barlow and stacked Meade 2x barlow and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was fair (3-5/10).

May 30, 2003, 10:36-11:05 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/29 (Televue 2x barlow and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was poor to fair (2-3/10). These images show rotation over about a 30 minute interval and will give a "stereoscopic" view if you allow the left and right images to superimpose.

May 22, 2003, 10:39 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/29 (Televue 2x barlow and extension tube) with an Edmund IR block filter. Seeing was 3-4/10 and Mars was about 31 degrees in altitude. 

 May 17, 2003, 11:21 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/29 (Televue 2x barlow and extension tube). Seeing was 3-4/10 and Mars was less than 34 degrees in altitude.

May 12, 2003, 11:12 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/29 (Televue 2x barlow and extension tube). Seeing was 2-3/10. Note the prominant southern polar cap.

April 5, 2003, 13:13 UT. 203 mm f/7 newtonian and Philips ToUcam Pro webcam @ f/29 (Televue 2x barlow and extension tube). First image of the 2003 apparition!

March 25, 2001, 11:17 UT. This images was obtained using an 203 mm f/7 and PC-23C video camera with a Wratten #25 Red filter and neutral density filter under good seeing conditions (5-6). Mars has a diameter of 9.7 arc seconds. This is the result of 121 stacked frames aligned and stacked with Astrostack followed by uncharp masking and level adjustment in Astrostack and/or Adobe Photoshop.

January 5, 2001, 12:26 UT. Obtained using an 203 mm f/7 and PC-23C  with a Wratten #25 Red and neutral density filter under fair to poor seeing conditions (3-4). Mars is only 5.4 arc seconds in diameter.