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Mars, Marc Dickinson

Mars

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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I did many images of Mars (at ~17" diameter) from late November to the middle of December, some with my C14 and some with my C8.  I have 2 thumb-drives full of of unusable videos because of the poor seeing.  I think the elbow of the jet-stream must have been parked over Oklahoma.  This image, with my old orange tube 70s vintage C8, was the only break in the seeing that I got.  I did 16 back to back 180 sec captures at 50 to 60 FPS.  Only 5  were during good seeing.  The seeing decays incredibly quick. So each 180s had ~ 10,000 frames and I used 8 percent from each so about 800 frames * 5 = 4000 frames total after combining using Winjupos.  I'm pleased I was able to salvage at least one image before Mars moves on.  I'm also ready to go back to DSO. Planetary is tough.

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Mars, Marc Dickinson