Contains:  Solar system body or event
Mars on November 29, 2020 (IR), JDJ

Mars on November 29, 2020 (IR)

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Description

Imaged Mars in IR on the evening of November 28, 2020 (Nov. 29 in UTC) under average seeing and above average transparency. Mars was showing a disc 14.9 arcsecs in diameter at magnitude of -1.2. The dark albedo feature at the meridian is Mare Sirenum. Olympus Mons and the Tharsis volcanoes are light albedo features near the meridian to the North .

Imaged with a C8 Evo, ZWO ADC, Baader IR 685nm pass 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 2.5 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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