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Mars, 2014 04 05. Approaching opposition., Almir Germano

Mars, 2014 04 05. Approaching opposition.

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Mars approaching oppostion, high in the sky, at 68 deg. Ls 112 deg, 14,9 arc sec diameter.

LRGB. C11, f/25, Grasshopper 3, nearly 5000 frames each channel, used nearly 2000 each.

Nyx Olympica, equatorial cloud belt. Amazonis, Arcadia and Elysium planitiae dominate the rest of the middle of the disc. Terra Cimmeria and Terra Sirenum in the extreme south, dark Utopi Planitia around the north pole. Very fragmented polar cap. Maybe, just maybe, a little tinny projection, just bellow and to the left of the polar cap, is Kotolev, a 84 km diameter ice filled crater. I doubt...

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Mars, 2014 04 05. Approaching opposition., Almir Germano