Mars - Syrtis Major last night (29th December 2022)

[chiltonstar]

Reasonably good seeing, although the scope was covered in frozen dew!

Huygens is visible just to the left of Syrtis, which is bottom right on the disk. There may be some cloud or haze visible bottom left??

180mm Mak at f22, using an ASI120 Colour camera, best 10% of 30,000 1 ms frames, processed in PIPP, AS and then sharpened in Registax.

Chris

Edited December 30, 2022 by chiltonstar

[Stu]

Very nice image @chiltonstar. I’ve observed at similar times recently and have noted the brightening to the right (on your image) of Syrtis Major and assumed it must be cloud of some sort. Some discussion here: