Mars 20241027
Mars is now high enough to be out of the goop and is starting to show some nice detail.
This is the best 5% of 15K frames exposed at 1ms each using an ROI of 1200×1200 and a firecapture cutout of 800×800.
The northern polar cap is seen with the planet showing 9 arc seconds of diameter. Some darker area north of the equator and lighter areas south. Using Sky & Telescopes Maps previewer, I could not actually match any features.
Mars altitude was 65 degrees high.
These annotations are incorrect as they state the OTA was the Vixen VC200L. This was actually the Celestron 9.25.. have to update the scripts and reprocess the annotations.