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Mars animation 1/11/25, below average seeing, first attempt!

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Posted 12 January 2025 - 02:46 PM

First time imaging Mars! I have been looking forward to this. I have not attempted it before and was excited to see what I could get. Unfortunately seeing conditions were not good / below average. I also have no experience getting the colors right on Mars. I think next time I will try to balance things on Jupiter and then swing over to Mars since both are very clear in the night sky at the beginning of the night. 

 

I used C11 with 715mc at native focal length, which is clearly oversampled for my seeing conditions, but it saves me messing with a barlow. I was getting over 300fps during the acquisition which is great. I followed the FAQ and took 6 minute videos over about 3 hours. I didn't do any derotation because I am on an EQ mount.  

 

Here is what I got. Sorry I botched the colors a bit. Wish the snow cap looked whiter.

 

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And here is a very rough animation:

 

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I am really hoping my skies will be clear for the occultation tomorrow.

 

CS!


Edited by aabusara, 12 January 2025 - 02:57 PM.

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