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Mars 1st try, Hermann Dresen

Mars 1st try

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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At the end of the planetary season, my first try on Mars. Viewing Conditions had been problematic for weeks, so I was happy to get a few holes in the cloudy skies to get a view on our actually close neighbour.

Missing a Dew-Shield proved to be a real problem though. Holding a hot pan in front of the optics was a desperate but mostly futile try to get rid of the dense mist on the Schmidt-Plate.

However I got two videos with a few thousand frames for lucky imaging. (Next time I should at least do a short dark). I used the post processing I described in my Jupiter image with Pipp,

Autostakkert, Registaxx and Photoshop CS2. Happy, I wrote that down. I would have been lost without those notes 😸

Without further ado my - maybe a little overdone - picture of Mars. I'll also post my unprocessed stacked image.

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Mars 1st try, Hermann Dresen