I managed to catch a relatively good and long sky, in total I recorded 5 hours of Mars in a row, 135 videos and a total of more than one million frames. I knew that I just couldn't do such an animation manually, so I automated the entire processing process. My main innovation is the software compensation of rotation of the azimuth mount and the subpixel alignment of the planet. The animation shows the appearance of small clouds over the mountains Olympus, Arsia, Pavonis and Ascraeus as they approach the limb, and closer to the other side of the limb, the appearance of Elysium is noticeable.
A - Olympus
B - Arsia
C - Pavonis
D - Ascraeus
E - Elysium
Mars 07.01.2023 19:19:53 - 00:03:19(local time), height 54->67->51 degrees, apparent diameter 13.75". Temperature overboard -13, remote shooting in a warm kitchen. Monty LX200 native brains. seeing 2/5, transparency 4/5. (1 - bad, 5 - excellent). Pipe Meade ACF 16" f/10 automated focuser myFP2 + barlow RM2x televue+ zwo EFW mini + Baader ir-cut + automated eADC + playerOne imx585. 67fps 380x380, 12bit, shutter speed 15.0ms, gain 235 (filling gist. 56% (too much, need 50-52%)). Adding 30% of 8000 frames in AS!3, PixInsight, C++. 135 films of 120sec each, 150% (the pixel scale of the original is 0.072”/pixel).
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