Contains:  Solar system body or event
Mars Timelapse, Awni Hafedh

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Oct 5, 2020 - Mars time-lapse

The red planet made its closest approach to Earth on October 6. Mars was 38,586,816 miles away from Earth and it won't be this close again until 2035.

it completes one rotation every 24.6 hours, which is very similar to one day on Earth (23.9 hours). and Mars diameter is 4212 miles which is only slightly more than half the size of Earth's diameter of 7917 miles which is a fun fact that we will grow longer if we lived on Mars because of lower gravity.

The night of Oct 5th I captured 164 videos starting from 11:50pm until 2:16am (1290 frames, 3ms at gain 400) each with 30sec delay in between. Stacked 14% of each video in Autostackart3 and did all the sharpening and processing in PixInSight and PIPP.

Equipment used were:

Telescope: Skywatcher 180Mak with 2.5x Televue barlow

Camera: ZWO ASI244MC

Mount: iOptron CEM25P

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