MarsWatch 1996-1997

Images of Mars from Astronomers Around the World


Linking Amateur and Professional Mars Observing Communities

for Observational Support of the Mars Pathfinder Mission


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11 March 1997

All images were obtained with a 60-cm telescope, CCD-camera ST-6V (SBIG) and magnifying filter block, which gives the equivalent focal length 12.3 m. The filters used at these observations are:

The exposure times are 15, 4, 0.7, and 0.1 sec correspondingly. Mean approximate counts number are 10, 45, 35, and 40 thousands (65535 is the saturation limit). The temperature of CCD is -20 C with accuracy of about 0.01 degrees. The noise dark counts are 100-200.


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