Mars Dec 6

Here is an image of Mars from this morning in average seeing, it's slowly getting larger and better placed for us southerners to image...

2 minutes capture per channel in IR (742nm) @ 44fps , G @ 50fps, B @ 40fps
Stacked best 2000 frames per channel.

The limb artifact is still present but somewhat reduced due to better seeing for this image compared to the last one a few days ago.

There appears to be some bright material in a line just below the North pole (at bottom), is this dust?

regards, Bird

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That's a great Mars Anthony.

Kevin

Very nice.

Peter

Bird, excellent shot. Do you try to keep the histograms during the individual IR, G, B captures the same or do you just try to collect the max possible brightness for each? For some reason I cannot seem to locate an unmounted 2" 742nm filter. Thanks for posting

Regards,
Steve