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Mars - Centred on Margaritifer Terra and Meridani-Planum with Acidalia Planitia above., dilipsharan

Mars - Centred on Margaritifer Terra and Meridani-Planum with Acidalia Planitia above.

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Mars on 22-Sep-2020 @ 01:03 BST as seen from my backyard in Milton Keynes.

Centred on Margaritifer Terra and Meridani-Planum with Acidalia Planitia above.

Martian North Pole at top of image

Magnitude: -2.31/ Apparent size: 21.8 arcsecs

RA/Dec (J2000.0): 1h45m16.23s/+6°33'29.8"

Az./Alt.: +146°20'52.4"/+40°06'31.4" (apparent)

Taken with a Altair Astro GPCAM 224C mounted on a Skywatcher 200 PDS (8" Newtonian)

30% of 3,000 frames captured was stacked in Autostakart and further processed in RegiStax 6.

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Mars - Centred on Margaritifer Terra and Meridani-Planum with Acidalia Planitia above., dilipsharan