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Mars on 2020-07-11 at 12.4" with 5" Maksutov, Jesco

Mars on 2020-07-11 at 12.4" with 5" Maksutov

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

My first decent Mars. Shot during dawn at 30° elevation.

Had trouble setting the ADC correctly. Optimum setting was only 5° for each lever. At 15° elevation it is about 20° for the ADC. Sadly, if I put the ADC behind my barlow lens, then the magnification becomes to large. Otherwise this would allow for much finer setting of the ADC.

Recorded 2x 80k frames for 4 min each. Stacked 10% in AS!3, drizzled 3x, sharpened in Registax and further derotated in WinJUPOS. Final editing in GIMP (a little sharpening, level setting and color tuning). Getting rid of the diffraction halo at the left hand side was quite challenging. I hope I got the colors right...

Now I am waiting for opposition and a much larger Mars.

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Description: added WinJUPOS simulation for better perspective

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Description: re-edit to better handle the diffraction halo and do not remove so much of the „dark“ side of Mars

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Mars on 2020-07-11 at 12.4" with 5" Maksutov, Jesco

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