2024 Mars Opposition
ZWO ASI178MC Camera Images
Capture Notes: ZWO ASI178MC camera, unless otherwise indicated. 8 inch Meade LXD55 SCT and 3X barlow.
ASIStudio is being used to capture the videos.
Processing Notes: Final processing has been done using AutoStakkert stacking, AstroSurface for wavelets for wavelets and deconvolution.
PhotoShop CS2, Paint Shop Pro 9, or The Gimp have been used for adjusting levels, curves, and color, while Neat Image is used for digital noise removal.
Image Notes: North is up.
September 1, 2024 at 11:08 UT
Camera settings: 30 millisecond exposure, and gain: 259. The video resolution was set to 640x480. Binning was set to 1x1. 6000 out of 13248 frames stacked. Seeing was average (~3 out of 5). The angular diameter of Mars was 12.0".
