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

Mars on November 9, 2020 (IR)

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

Imaged Mars in IR on the evening of November 8, 2020 (Nov. 9 in UTC) with 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.

Imaged with a C8 Evo, ZWO ADC, Baader IR 685nm pass filter, and 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 3.75 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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