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Mars, Davide Mascoli

Mars

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

First attempt on Mars!

17.10.2020 UT7.15pm. 2x7000f @65fps (best 20%) , Gain 6, Exp 8.5ms.

Celestron C8 Edge HD + QHY5L-II color CMOS planetary camera + barlow 2x.

FireCapture + PIPP + Autostakkert + RegiStax + WinJUPOS + PS

The seeing was not very good, there was a blurring effect in the 'live video' but I remember the north polar region has been always visible (and It helped me to focus as better as possible!).

For post-processing (after stacking and de-rotation and a bit of sharpening with wavelets) I carefully used unsharp-masks in PS in order to emphasize details as much as possibile. Anyway I'm really enthusiastic of this first result obtained especially because when I captured in that free time I had available, Mars was just around 30 degrees in altitude!

From Certosa di Pavia, Italy.

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Mars, Davide Mascoli

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