Contains:  Solar system body or event
Mars on November 9, 2020 (OSC RGB and IR), JDJ

Mars on November 9, 2020 (OSC RGB and IR)

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

Compilation of OSC RGB and IR Mars images from the evening of November 8, 2020 (Nov. 9 in UTC) taken under average seeing and transparency. Mars was showing a disc 18.6 arcsecs in diameter at magnitude of -1.9. Prominent dark albedo features include Sinus Meridiani and Sinus Sabaeus (to the left of the meridian) and Syrtis Major (to theright of the meridian near the limb). The Hellas basin is the light albedo feature to the sout of Syrtis Major.

RGB image (ASI224MC + UVIR cut filter): https://astrob.in/3zc9x4/0/

IR image (ASI224MC + IR 685nm pass filter): https://astrob.in/w17pxe/0/

Separated out R/G/B channels from OSC RGB image taken with the ASI224MC.

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