Mars – The Red Planet

Mars is a fascinating target for astrophotography, revealing surface features, polar caps and atmospheric details under favorable conditions. With a long focal length, video capture and lucky imaging, thousands of individual frames can be combined to produce remarkably detailed images of the Red Planet.

Mars, Mar 19 ’25

Planet time! It was the perfect opportunity to attach my planetary camera to the telescope in Tower 1 at Hoher List.

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) – Mars, Feb’23

Astrophoto with legacy lens. One year after collecting the data the processing finally worked. This material was one of the hardest to process, yet.

Pleiades and Mars with the OM 135 – January 2023

A reprocessed astrophoto with Mars and Pleiades using an Olympus legacy lens.

Mars and Moon single shot with the OM 200 – January 3, 2023

A single hole after weeks of clouds. Used the moment for a single shot with legacy lens Olympus Zuiko Auto-T MC 200mm.

Mars lucky imaging session with the VC200L – December 13, 2022

In my eyes i reached the minimum goal this year, in the subject of making planetary photos. Neither more nor less.

Mars – first astrophoto – November 4, 2020

Even before attempting deep-sky photography, I tried my hand at Mars. It’s hard to believe how decent this first result turned out to be.