Northern Polar Hood?

[Nightspore]

I was up early and saw Saturn and Jupiter. I also got a few minutes on Mars at 120x and 163x with my Altair 60EDF.

 

 

I could just about see the phase although I couldn't see any surface detail. There was a bright large albedo feature over a lot of the north pole. I suspect this could be the northern polar hood. Has anyone else seen this?

[+Bino-viewer]

Not yet.

 

I've still not seen Mars, Jupiter or Saturn this current apparition.

Too many trees in the way and battling morning twilight.

 

 

[Nightspore]

18 hours ago, Bino-viewer said:

Not yet.

 

I've still not seen Mars, Jupiter or Saturn this current apparition.

Too many trees in the way and battling morning twilight.

 

 

 

I only went out to see Saturn, Jupiter was an added bonus and Mars was a bit of a surprise. 

 

 

There is a Jupiter/Mars conjunction on Sunday morning. I doubt I'll be able to see it though. 

[philjay]

On 26/05/2022 at 19:17, Nightspore said:

I was up early and saw Saturn and Jupiter. I also got a few minutes on Mars at 120x and 163x with my Altair 60EDF.

 

 

I could just about see the phase although I couldn't see any surface detail. There was a bright large albedo feature over a lot of the north pole. I suspect this could be the northern polar hood. Has anyone else seen this?

Saw it a few years ago at one of the more favourable oppositions with my 80mm f15

[Nightspore]

3 hours ago, philjay said:

Saw it a few years ago at one of the more favourable oppositions with my 80mm f15

 

It was quite obvious for a while during the 2020 opposition, I could even see it with the 72ED DS Pro. For a while I actually thought it was the northern polar cap until I realised what it was. 

 

 

I made this jpeg using Stellarium to describe what I thought I was seeing. I didn't see it this large through the eyepiece of course, and I've blurred the surface features deliberately to give the impression of what I was actually viewing through the eyepiece. I could recognise the surface features. I also rotated the image to correspond to what I was seeing after I'd rotated the OTA or diagonal. It's amazing what you can do in GIMP lol.