Observation by Steve Knight: Mars in IR

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Steve Knight

Observer

Steve Knight

Observed

2020 Sep 15 - 01:28

Uploaded

2020 Sep 15 - 03:26

Objects

Mars

Equipment

Skywatcher 300mm f5 Newtonian
Televue 2.5x Powermate
742nm bandpass filter
Watch House EQ platform
ZWO ASI224MC camera

Exposure

x1000 0.867ms (gain 350, 58%) stacked

Location

Banbury

Target name

Mars

Title

Mars in IR

About this image

The seeing seemed to be very good. Manually focussing a real challenge. As was keeping Mars in field of view with marginal tracking, Pleased though, my first go imaging Mars at 742nm.

Files associated with this observation

1000 registaxed Faststoned.jpg (108.3 kB)

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