Mars

Mars 13 November 2018 now spinning away from Earth on its orbit. 127mm. Meade Apo- refractor - x3 Barlow and QHY5-11 planetary camera 9 minutes of AVI consolidated into one still frame using PIPP , AS!2 and Registax 6 software - Credit: Pip Stakkert

"A very mixed night of cloudy and clear skies over Lowestoft when this image was captured. Mars has been very low in the southern sky from our latitude of 52 degrees North and below the skyline from the Observatory earlier in the year when Mars was much closer to the Earth. Anyway, as soon as it appeared above the roofs, we managed to image the planet before it got too far and too small to be photographed effectively. Nice view of the southern polar cap and is that a white cloud on the limb"? - Kurt Thrust acting CEO and current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.