Contains:  Solar system body or event
Animation of three hours twenty minutes of Mars rotation 10/01/2020, Anthony Quintile

Animation of three hours twenty minutes of Mars rotation 10/01/2020

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Animation of three hours twenty minutes of Mars rotation 10/01/2020, Anthony Quintile

Animation of three hours twenty minutes of Mars rotation 10/01/2020

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

My first attempt at a planetary animation.

Our extremely varied seeing conditions made this a challenge.

I shot 2.45 million frames, approximately 74,220 per exposure, and used the best 5000 of each run. I discarded some shots from early in the evening because the seeing lower in the sky was too bad to make for a good image.

The net duration is 3 hours and 20 minutes.

Using the automation and auto-alignment in Firecapture was life-saving! Mad props to the developer , Torsten, for his efforts on this software!

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Description: I reworked the frames to have closer brightness and color balance for a smoother animation.

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Description: Fixed mistake where the background on a couple frames was too light.

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