"Mars Rise"

APOD Submission: The 2022 Lunar Occultation of Mars - Imaged from home in the United Kingdom.

 

This image was a culmination of several events and a night of great remembrance - battling sub-freezing temperatures and an oppressive frost. All worth it in the end.

 

- Moon: 4-panel mosaic - 10% of 14k frames per panel.

- Mars: 8 x 75-sec stacked at 5% and derotated to the correct time, with the last of the captures taking place just 2m before ingress

- Composition: 1 x 7ms exposure during the event.

 

- AS!3, Astrosurface, WinJupos & Adobe PS for processing.

- Skywatcher 400P (16" GoTo Dobsonian), Celestron 3x Barlow, Omegon Atmospheric Dispersion corrector (ADC), P1 Uranus-C (IMX585) at 8750mm f/21.5.

- 6/10 seeing, 6/10 transparency, 28° altitude. 08-DEC-22 04:59:12 UT

- Credit: Myself - Tom Williams

Done