Monday, May 23, 2016

Mars through 65mm Newtonian

There was a clear night (it's rare for this spring in Kyiv) from 21 to 22 of May. The Moon was full.
Despite relatively bad seeing I tried to catch Mars image using my ultra-simple setup (65mm Newtonian on an azimuthal mount + Canon IXUS 132 compact camera).
A short movie was recorded at ~00:35 (UT+3) [22-May-2016]. It was processed using PIPP, AS2, and Registax6. Some final operations were made with FSViewer.
I did not expect to see many details (if any), however near the South pole Mare Sirenum could be distinguished (bottom right), probably covered by clouds (they seem to be visible also at the limb).

Mars' poles are positioned like in the scheme below:

According to Stellarium 0.12.1, a visible diameter of the planet was 18"; altitude (at the time of capturing) was ~18 degree.

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