Bajastro Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 (edited) Mars was taken at night between 20:57 and 22:29 UTC. Equipment used: Celestron SCT C8, Barlow 2x, GSO #29 (dark red), ASI120MM Mini, HEQ5 mount. Animation was prepared from 20 images with drizzle 150% (the best 10% of frames from 60-second movies): One of the best images from 21:55UT: Edited October 23, 2020 by Bajastro 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eris Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 That is really cracking., great detail and love the animation. I have a C8 and have not yet managed to get this sort of clarity. Well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astroman001 Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 Great work, love the animation. Super detail for a C8. Peter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bajastro Posted October 23, 2020 Author Share Posted October 23, 2020 Thank you all. Last night after 3 cloudy weeks I photographed Mars with his moons: Moons: 100% from 60 seconds movie, frames 1s, high gain used. Planet: 10% from 120 seconds movie. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bajastro Posted October 24, 2020 Author Share Posted October 24, 2020 Mars is already slowly moving away from Earth, there is still a month of good visibility allowing you to observe many surface details. I found some time and collected the best photos from among a dozen photo sessions devoted to Mars. The planet was closest to Earth on the 6th of October. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoflewis Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Lovely images and annimation throughout the thread - excellent work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bajastro Posted November 11, 2020 Author Share Posted November 11, 2020 (edited) I choose several of the best my photos of Mars and I prepared an animation based on Łukasz Sujka's tutorial. I struggled the most with map assembly in Gimp 2: I'm still waiting for good weather to photograph the area from Olympus Mons near the center of the planet's disc. Animation prepared in WinJUPOS for the date 2020-10-13: Equipment: Celestron C8 (SCT 8" F/10), ES Barlow 2x, Gso dark red filter (#29), ASI120MM Mini, HEQ5 mount. Edited November 11, 2020 by Bajastro 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoflewis Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 Excellent map and animation. I too have been following Lucasz’s tutorial to prepare a map and animation, but also only have a very poor image of the Olympus Monster region, so hoping that I can capture better data in the coming week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bajastro Posted February 1, 2021 Author Share Posted February 1, 2021 (edited) Yesterday I analysed a material containing almost 100 movies. 89 stacks were available for further processing. Movies were recorded on 27th of October 2020 from 20:40 to 22:27 UT. Below are animations showing the movement of Mars' moons: Phobos moves in an arc on the right, Deimos moves away from Mars on the left. On the right, Mars is "approaching" the star 2MASS J01051472+0444422 (Gaia EDR3 2552047650065811968) with a magnitude of V= 13.2 mag, and actually Mars is moving retrograde against the background of the stars Equipment: SCT C8", kamera ZWO ASI 120MM Mini, ES Barlow 2x, GSO dark red (#29), all on HEQ5 mount. Edited February 1, 2021 by Bajastro 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orion25 Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Excellent images and animation! Thanks for sharing your efforts! Regards, Reggie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markse68 Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Awesome animations and all done with an ASI120! Really great work Baj Mark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Presland Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Excellent images and animation 👌 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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