Mars imaged just 17 days from opposition. Not bad for a first attempt at planetary imaging, I’ve learned a lot and my next attempt should be even better.
Acquisition:
- Skies: Bortle 8
- Seeing: poor
- Video: 7 minutes continuous
Equipment:
- Skywatcher 10 inch GoTo Dobsonian
- ZWO ASI 224 MC
- ZWO Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector
- Televue Powermate 5x
- Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow filter
Processing:
- Planetary Imaging PreProcessor: image centering, cropping, frame rejection
- WinJUPOS: video de-rotation
- AutoStakkert 3: stacked best 70% of frames
- Registax: wavelets sharpening
- Photoshop: rotate, crop, levels, curves, smart sharpen
- Topaz Gigapixel AI: upscale 4x