Contains:  Solar system body or event
Mars on December 11, 2020 (OSC RGB and IR), JDJ

Mars on December 11, 2020 (OSC RGB and IR)

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

Compilation of OSC RGB and IR Mars images from the evening of December 10, 2020 (Dec. 11th in UTC) with average seeing and above average transparency. Mars was showing a disc 13 arcsecs in diameter (91% illuminated) at magnitude of -0.8. The dark albedo feature near the equator and to the right of the meridian is Sinus Meridiani. The northern polar hood and south polar cap are still just visible.

RGB image (ASI224MC + UVIR cut filter): https://astrob.in/7mhddi/0/

IR image (ASI224MC + IR 685nm pass filter): https://astrob.in/b715nh/0/

Separated out R/G/B channels from OSC RGB image taken with the ASI224MC.

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