Mars on Oct 6


Clear, no wind, temperature in the high 40s; turbulence was quite good, 6/10 maybe slightly better. Equipment used: Celestron 14, Televue 2X barlow, Baader UV/IR cut filter, Zwo ASI 462MC camera at gain of 286 and exposure 3.57 msec; Captured for 6 minutes at 239 fps (85,970 frames) with roi of 480×274. Aligned and stacked best 5% with AutoStakkert; sharpened with Registax; resized with Photoshop. Apparent size of Mars is now 12.9 arc sec. A number of albedo features are now visible in live view.

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