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Mars Animation - 10th Sep 2020, Tristan Campbell

Mars Animation - 10th Sep 2020

Mars Animation - 10th Sep 2020, Tristan Campbell

Mars Animation - 10th Sep 2020

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This is my very first attempt at an animation of Mars. It was taken this morning between 00:12 and 1:55 UTC. It's a bit flickery, I think I may need to move to Firecapture as that seems to have preset exposures per filter. Still finding my way around the software as never really done planetary imaging before. Seeing was not great, I think the jet stream was over my location.

It's taken though a 250PDS 10" f/4.7 Newtonian (which probably needs better collimation) with a ZWO 1600MM Pro. 3x Barlow so 3600mm focal length. It was a lot easier to frame up with a larger sensor and then to reduce resolution on capture.

You can see a light patch (dust storm or cloud?) which was visible last night move from centre of frame to left edge. Mount Olympus is visible and looks to me to develop a shadow as it moved to the terminator.

Any tips appreciated!

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