Contains:  Solar system body or event
Mars in IR on October 23, 2020, JDJ

Mars in IR on October 23, 2020

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

Imaged Mars in IR on the morning of October 23, 2020 with average seeing and transparency. Mars was showing a disc 21.4 arcsecs in diameter at magnitude of -2.4. The prominent dark albedo feature to the south of the meridian is Mare Sirenum. Olympus Mons is visible in the top half of the image to the left of the meridian.

Imaged with a C8 Evo, ZWO ADC, Baader IR 685nm pass filter, an.d ZWO ASI224MC. Imaging train was configured to give ~F/20 (~0.18 arcsec/pixel). Image capture using Firecapture with gain set at 275 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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