Pictures of Mars taken with our digital camera — General Discussion

Raichu86 10 Sep 2003, 02:50

Last night I decided to try to get pictures of Mars while I still had the chance. And guess what? I succeeded.

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Taken last night (9/8/03). This is scaled down. Mars is on the lower left. The big huge cream pie of fatality is on the upper right. 😛

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This is a cropped version of the original size (1280x960). No scaling applied.

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Taken just a few minutes ago. Tonight, I realized that our camera had much higher picture resolutions than I was using the night before, so I tried again. I got a much bigger picture. This was cropped from a 2048x1536 picture.

Our camera only has 6x percision digital zoom. The pictures aren't too impressive, but I'm amazed I could get such good ones with just a digital camera.

Rainman 10 Sep 2003, 02:54

I will remember that red blur for the rest of my life :P

carrot red 10 Sep 2003, 06:53

I really do not like that planet.

Yes, the moon looks nice.

fatcatfan 10 Sep 2003, 15:00

Oh, you'd like it well enough if you were there too.

Nice pictures Raichu, particularly since I haven't bothered to go out and look at mars myself.

Gerudo 10 Sep 2003, 17:03

you saved me a trip, Rai... 😉

pretty good zoom for a regular camera... i couldnt take a pic like that with my camera...

Starkist 10 Sep 2003, 18:32

I see Mars in the sky every night, however without a good camera nor a telescope, a little red pinprick is all I have.

Draconis 11 Sep 2003, 12:50

say, see if you could hook up an optical lens on the camera's outside aperature, and then you should get a clearer shot WITHOUT using digital zoom because digital zoom always cruds up the image.