Mars on October 6, 2020 (a few days before Opposition)
Characteristics:
Image scale: 0.21 arcsec/pixel
North at top, South pole at around 7 o'clock
Planetary disk diameter 23 arcseconds
Photographic
Details:
Dates: October 6, approximately
2:22 AM
EDT (UT 06:22)
Scope: Celestron 9.25" (235mm), native focal length
2350mm, f10
Camera: ZWO ASI178MM monochrome
video camera, pixel size 2.4 um, with Starlight Xpress USB powered 5
position filter wheel for 2" filters
Filters: 2" mounted
Baader
LRGB filters
Seeing conditions: Good
Location: Needham, MA
Post-processing:
Video capture in FireCapture (1 millseconds/frame), video
stacking in AutoStakkert! (7,000 frames per R, G, B filter), further
stacking in Winjupos, wavelet
processing in Registax, final processing in Photoshop (LRGB combine)
using a combination of Astraimage, and unsharp masking
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note: Graphics on this website
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