Night of 2016-07-05
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Mars imaged with our planetary telescope and a high speed camera to minimize
blurring by Earth's atmosphere.  Color image composite is approximately true
color from separate exposures in red, green, and blue filters.  There are also
images of the satellites Deimos and Phobos. 

This is not at opposition and Mars appears gibbous because our line of sight to
it is not opposite the line to the Sun.


Mewlon
ZWO174/Sony IMX174

Image scale 0.338 "/pixel

Exposures ~0.05 seconds

Centered using image stabilization in AIJ
Selected best images with edge sensing
Unsharp masked the selected stack with ~6px
Dropped outlayer poor frames
Coadded to sum
Unsharp masked the sum with fewer px than each stack (usually ~3 px)
Flipped vertically

Checked orientation against XEphem's prediction for the satellites

Combined in AstroImageJ

Exported to png


m04 mars DATE-OBS  =  2016-07-06T02:20:36.087
m07 mars DATE-OBS  =  2016-07-06T02:24:55.556
m09 mars DATE-OBS  =  2016-07-06T02:26:24.545

avg_j03_rgb_disk.png                Jupiter RGB rendering 
avg_m04_rgb_disk.png                Mars RGB rendering
avg_m07_g_deimos_sqrt.png           Mars showing Deimos in G filter 
avg_m09_c_deimos_lin.png            Mars showing Deimos in C (no IR) filter


xephem_mars_ut20160706.png          Stars and Deimos in field of Mars