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Balancing details with more natural look on Mars, Hermann Klingele

Balancing details with more natural look on Mars

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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Next try on 14,5 arc seconds Mars as of 01.01.2023 22:58 CET:
- Stacking 780 out out 15000 frames (12 ms) with Astro Surface multiple times with different grids,, resize 300
- Stacking these 28 results using AutoStakkert, Drizzle 150
- Careffully working on the 4,5x oversampled result with Registax
- Manually postprocessing with both GIMP and FitsWork (Color balance, contrast, filters ...)
- Finally resizing back to 4x oversampling: 14 km per pixel,
The result looks a bit pale due to the "resolution over contrast" approach, but landscape has less artifacts than my previous attempts, good match also for smaller features with e.g. Stellarium Web Mars rendering at that timestamp. Need some time to realize that resolution is quite good despite the missing contrast.

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Balancing details with more natural look on Mars, Hermann Klingele