Moon - Mars Conjunction on December 7, 2022 - Close-in View (JDJ)

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Moon - Mars Conjunction on December 7, 2022 - Close-in View

Imaged the conjunction of Earth's moon and Mars on the night of December 7/8, 2022. This image was taken at 11:10 pm EDT on 12/7 near minimum separation as viewed from my location. This image was generated using my standard planetary imaging setup (C8 SCT + 2x barlow giving ~4000 mm focal length). The pairing of the Moon and Mars just barely fit in the field of view with the ASI224MC camera. I was able to grab a few captures before the separation between the pair became to great to fit in the FOV. At that point, I switched over to an ASI533MC which has a much wider FOV but a slower frame rate and those images didn't turn out as well due to the low frame rate and deteriorating sky conditions.

Imaged with a C8 Evo, ZWO ADC, Baader UV-IR Cut filter, and ZWO ASI224MC. Imaging train was configured to give me ~F/20. Image capture using Firecapture with gain set at 350 and an exposure of 4 ms. Stacking in AutoStakkert3 (best 50% of ~850 frames). Color balancing and Wavelet sharpening in Registax6. Additional processing in PixInsight: local histogram transformation and color saturation adjustment. Noise reduction using Topaz DeNoise AI.

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Description: Image captured with an ASI533MC at 11:28 pm

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