Mars near Opposition 2022 (Vitaly)

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Mars near Opposition 2022

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Mars near Opposition 2022

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

This would be my best Mars image so far. Taken on 12 December 2022 just 4 days after its opposition to us. Mars was 83.5 million km away.
Although for me the planet was 50 degrees above the horizon, the seeing was still pretty bad with a lot of turbulence.

For acquisition of the video I have decided to use AsiAir Pro which gave me eventually this result.

Stacked 5442 images, best to my own taste in AutoStakkert! with 1.5 drizzle.
I have found out that AP of size 24 did the best to get the smallest possible details and at the same time not producing artefacts like black pixels. But this is probably just relevant for my data.

For the first time tried out the under developing WaveSharp ([url=http://link]WaveSharp[/url]).
Really liked how fast it works. For my image used ZeroGauss filter, Convolve RGB, Layer 1 sharpen 0.1, Layer 2 sharpen 0.1 and for the 3rd Layer - sharpen 0.230, power 100 and no denoise.

RGB balance was done in Pixinsight using LinearFit (on R) and ColorCalibration.

The OSC Club (One Shot Camera)
Solar System Imaging
Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope (SCT) Imagers
Astrophotography Germany

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