Contains:  Solar system body or event
Mars on December 11, 2020 (IR), JDJ

Mars on December 11, 2020 (IR)

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

Imaged Mars in IR on the evening of December 10, 2020 (Dec. 11th in UTC) with average seeing and above average transparency. Mars was showing a disc 13 arcsecs in diameter (91% illuminated) at magnitude of -0.8. The dark albedo feature near the equator and to the right of the meridian is Sinus Meridiani. The northern polar hood and south polar cap are still just visible.

Imaged with a C8 Evo, ZWO ADC, Baader IR 685nm pass 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 3.5 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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