{"id":10227,"date":"2022-12-12T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=10227"},"modified":"2022-12-12T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:08:22","slug":"mars-2022-dec-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2022\/12\/mars-2022-dec-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars 2022 Dec 09"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It looks like both of us imaged Mars at very near the same time. I did x36 four minute imaging runs from 21:37 to 00:02 EST. exposure was 0.2ms ! wow! Registax has a filename issue when there are decimal points in the name, so I had to work around that.<\/p>\n

Two places to identify features:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/skyandtelescope.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/observing-tools\/mars_profiler\/mars.html#<\/p>\n

https:\/\/britastro.org\/2022\/mars-mapper-updated-for-2022<\/p>\n

The BAA one seems to work a little better but cannot invert the image.
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In any event, I start on Jupiter Friday evening and then whilst inside the house went to Mars and started, hence the camera also could\/should have been rotated a bit to get north up but is off the the right.<\/p>\n

The best shot I think is at 04:40 UTC = 11:40 EST, mainly due to altitude, an amazing 58 degrees! It went up as high as 71 degrees but seeing got a little worse.<\/p>\n

I skipped the RGB autobalance in registax as it took away wayyyy too much red.<\/p>\n

This entire sequence was the best 5%.. not to bad … 42K frames<\/p>\n

So this is much like the quicklook at Mars I posted a couple of days ago<\/p>\n

And finally, the 36 workable frames turned into an animated .GIF (2MB.. sorry folks!)<\/p>\n

Looking forward to Monday evening… will not be able to stay up until midnight then, but at last 21:00 EST methinks. Mars will still get pretty high, and hopefully I will be barlow enabled. I decided to add back in the 90 deg diagonal until such time as the extension tubes arrive. It’s a good diagonal though… dielectric 99% reflectivity. On the downside another optical surface for dust to make spots!<\/p>\n

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