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Mars [obsolete]
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Image Details:
- Camera: Nikon D100
- Mount: Celestron AS-GT
- Scope: Celestron C8-N (8" f/5 Newtonian)
- Configuration: Eyepiece Projection
- Additional Optics: Celestron "Kit" 4mm Plössl
- Filter: None
- Effective Focal Length: 16000mm
- Effective Focal Ratio: f/80
- Exposure: 2 x 1/8 sec + 1 x 1/4 sec @ ISO 200
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- Date: 8/23/2003, 1:30am PDT
- Location: Saratoga, CA, USA
- Acquisition: Manual
- Focus: Manual
- Dithering: None
- Guiding: None
Processing:
- IRIS: registration, stacking, wavelet processing, cropping
- Photoshop: rotation, image scale (1/2 x), JPG conversion
Image Description:
Taken within days of Mars' historic rendezvous with Earth in August of 2003, within weeks of getting my C8-NGT, and long before I knew what the heck I was doing. It was rather cool of Jon to let me borrow his D100 to get this shot. Mars' North is up.