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Mars on August 23rd, 2020, Ethan Chappel

Mars on August 23rd, 2020

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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With Mars out of view for a while, it is a good time to pick up where I left off in 2020.

At this stage of the apparition, we were catching up to Mars for a fairly close opposition in October at a distance of 62.5M km, resulting in a maximum angular diameter of 22.4". The south polar cap was rapidly shrinking as the beginning of summer was due to arrive just a couple weeks later.

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