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Mars in IR on August 25, 2020, JDJ

Mars in IR on August 25, 2020

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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I had my first close up look at Mars of the 2020 apparition on the morning of August 24, 2020. What a sight! The conditions were great with above average seeing and transparency. Mars was ~18 arcsecs in diameter, 90% illuminated, and blazing a glorious orange hue at magnitude -1.6. I imaged in RGB with a OSC camera (see post: ) and IR with a mono camera (this post).

Imaged with a C8 Evo, ZWO ADC, Baader IR 685nm pass filter, and ZWO ASI290MM. Imaging train was configured to give ~F/20. Image capture using Firecapture with gain set at 300 and an exposure of 4 ms. Stacking in AutoStakkert3 (best 25% of ~50000 frames captured over 300 seconds). Wavelet sharpening in Registax6. De-rotated and combined 9 images in Winjupos.

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