Contains:  Solar system body or event
Mars on November 21, 2020 (OSC RGB), JDJ

Mars on November 21, 2020 (OSC RGB)

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

Imaged Mars in OSC RGB on the evening of November 20, 2020 (Nov. 21 in UTC) with good seeing and above average transparency. Mars was showing a disc 16.3 arcsecs in diameter at magnitude of -1.5. The prominent dark albedo at the meridian is Mare Cimmerium.

Imaged with a C8 Evo, ZWO ADC, Baader UV-IR Cut filter, and ZWO ASI224MC. Imaging train was configured to give ~F/20 (~0.18 arcsec/pixel). Image capture using Firecapture with gain set at 300 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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