Mars
Taken by Mark Schmidt on August 13, 2018 @
Racine County, WI USA
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Date Taken: 2018:08:13 09:43:37
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Mars is very close to earth this year but its normally very neat surface features that are visible have been obscured because of a global dust storm that started at the end of May 2018. For northern hemisphere observers like myself, mars is very low in the sky in relation to the horizon. This makes getting good detailed images of the red planet frustratingly difficult. The dust finally seems to be thinning out now and those neat looking surface features are once again starting to show. Here are some images of mars that I was able to capture during the second week in August 2018. They clearly show some Martian albedo features again. The images were taken using a 14” Schmidt Cassegrain telescope and a ZWO ASI290MM imaging camera. All the images are monochrome images taken through a Baader IR685 (infrared passing) filter. The IR filter helps penetrate the dust in the Martian atmosphere.
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