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Mars 5 Mar 2024 - 5 Minute Stack, Seb Lukas

Mars 5 Mar 2024 - 5 Minute Stack

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Mars 5 Mar 2024 - 5 Minute Stack, Seb Lukas

Mars 5 Mar 2024 - 5 Minute Stack

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Mars in dawn sky on Wed 6 Mar 2024.

My first view of the Red Planet as it begins another opposition cycle. Recorded 15 minutes before sunrise.

Was fortunate to catch Mars in the narrow gap between houses although the mirror was still partly in the shadow. Took fourteen five-minute runs starting at 6:15 am AEDT, seeing was unstable making focusing challenging. F17 rig configuration used for Saturn imaging last year, single stack of 2,500 frames.

Mars is on the other side of the Sun right now and still very small (4.3 arc seconds). Mare Erythraeum hemisphere is on display here with the South Polar Cap near its maximum extent. Although overall detail is fairly soft there is a hint of Nilokeras in the north and Solis Lacus in the south-west.

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Mars 5 Mar 2024 - 5 Minute Stack, Seb Lukas