Contains:  Solar system body or event
Mars on October 4, 2020, JDJ

Mars on October 4, 2020

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

Another session with good seeing on the morning of October 4, 2020 with average seeing and transparency. Mars was only a two days from closest approach and showing a disc ~22.5 arcsecs in diameter at magnitude of -2.5. This session was about the same time as yesterdays, so the surface visible on Mars is pretty similar. The dark albedo feature to the left of central meridian is Sinus Meridiani and to the right is 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. Image capture using Firecapture with gain set at 250 and an exposure of 5 ms. Stacking in AutoStakkert3 (best 15% of ~45,000 frames captured over 300 seconds). Color balancing and Wavelet sharpening in Registax6. De-rotated and combined 3 images in Winjupos.

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