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Mars, Jason Guenzel

Mars

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This is my first "real" attempt at an image of the fourth stone from the sun. I consider this a good practice for the coming opposition. I talked about how low my previous target was at a max of 28 degrees. This is even lower and at the time I imaged it that night it was only at 25 degrees from my location.

Due to some problems getting the 120MM running smoothly, I used the 174MM. With a 2.5x powermate I don't quite get the image scale in the right spot for those big pixels. What it does allow, though, is for me to absolutely tear it up with frame rate. Red was shot at 436fps, Green at 152, and Blue at 99 to get the histogram equalized. The best 2500 out of 10000 frames was used for each channel. I did not use the luminance due to the dispersion that was evident in that channel, so this is a straight RGB combine.

This data is 3x drizzled and up-scaled 150% because, well, it's tiny.

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Mars, Jason Guenzel

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