Contains:  Solar system body or event
Mars animation 9/19/2020, Ryan Kinnett

Mars animation 9/19/2020

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Mars animation 9/19/2020, Ryan Kinnett

Mars animation 9/19/2020

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Good seeing after 2 weeks of intense smoke from the Bobcat Fire.

Olympus Mons seen on the NE limb, rolling out of view. Equatorial clouds (!) south of Olympus Mons. Gale Crater (current home of Curiosity rover) and Jezero Crater (future home of Perseverance rover) rolling into view on NW limb.

10 individual captures, 180 sec each, 3ms exposure time. Spans 30 minutes.

Here's my tutorial for capturing and processing planet animations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmHzoxkfzjA

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