Mars is going up and left in the videos I took. This took a lot of fnarjing to get it to stack as no software seems to cope with this combination of a surface and a planet (or it could be a moon). Basically I cut 3000 rather large frames of video down to 70 best ones while enlarging the image width in PIPP. That wider but shorter set of frames then went into AutoStakkert!4, the extra width allowed a stabilization anchor to be set (too close to the edge of frame otherwise). Lucky Stack Worker is a new tool for sharpening, tweaking and cropping, very good it is too.
Image date, time and location: 9 Feb 2025 18:55 UTC, Manche, France
Telescope aperture and focal ratio: Teleskop Service Classic Cassegrain (GSO) 8" f12
Camera and filters used: ZWO ASI678 with 2u pixels
Processing applied: PIPP, Autostakkert!4, Lucky Stack Worker
Spot the polar cap!
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(https://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10050/normal_2025-02-09-1855_9-DAE-OSC-Mars_ZWO_ASI678MC_pipp_pipp_lapl3_ap70_REF.jpg) (https://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10050/2025-02-09-1855_9-DAE-OSC-Mars_ZWO_ASI678MC_pipp_pipp_lapl3_ap70_REF.jpg)
Wow that looks a bit of a mission, but a good result. Can't say I have ever heard of this word before
Quotefnarjing
QuoteSpot the polar cap!
Oh yes.
This will go into March images as we have closed the February ones for this month so they don't get too long because of the playlet performance.
Very nice!
Great image Duncan
Thanks all! 8)