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

Mars on November 11, 2020 (OSC RGB)

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

Imaged Mars in OSC RGB on the evening of November 11, 2020 (Nov. 10 in UTC) with average seeing and transparency. Mars was showing a disc 18.2 arcsecs in diameter at magnitude of -1.8. Prominent dark albedo features include Syrtis Major just to the right of the meridian. The Hellas basin is the light albedo feature to the south of Syrtis Major.

Imaged with a C8 Evo, ZWO ADC, Baader UV-IR Cut filter, and ZWO ASI224MC. Imaging train was configured to give ~F/20 (~0.18 arcsec/pixel). Image capture using Firecapture with gain set at 300 and an exposure of 2 ms. Stacking in AutoStakkert3 (best 5% of ~70,000 frames captured over 240 seconds). Color balancing and Wavelet sharpening in Registax6. De-rotated and combined 3 images in Winjupos.

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