Date
1 - 9 of 9
Mars Occultation from Illinois
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Roland Christen
The skies cleared for us in Northern Illinois for the egress of Mars from behind the Moon. Visually it was a stunning sight in the 12" Mak-Cass with a wide-field eyepiece. Marj and I took turns to see the tiny planet emerge from the western part of the Moon. I grabbed my Sony digital camera, removed the eyepiece and shot this scene (attached) as Mars was pulling away. Hand held above the 2" diagonal, 1/1000 second @ASA800, Sony NEX7.
Rolando
-- Roland Christen Astro-Physics 
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ap@CaptivePhotons.com
That is simply amazing, even more so when I read how you did it. I've seen some from people with expensive camera gear that were not nearly as good. If I had just run across it somewhere other than a reliable source would have sworn it was a composite.
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Very Cool!! It was amazing to see the stark colour contrast between the moon and mars.
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Luca Marinelli
Very nice, Roland! Great detail on Mars as well.
Luca
On Dec 8, 2022, at 12:45 PM, Terry Martin via groups.io <terry@...> wrote:
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Roland Christen
For some reason the image was reduced from what I posted. The full res image is here:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/hamfuf/0/?mod=&real=
Rolando
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From: Roland Christen via groups.io <chris1011@...> To: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io>; main@ap-ug.groups.io <main@ap-ug.groups.io> Sent: Thu, Dec 8, 2022 11:41 am Subject: [ap-gto] Mars Occultation from Illinois The skies cleared for us in Northern Illinois for the egress of Mars from behind the Moon. Visually it was a stunning sight in the 12" Mak-Cass with a wide-field eyepiece. Marj and I took turns to see the tiny planet emerge from the western part of the Moon. I grabbed my Sony digital camera, removed the eyepiece and shot this scene (attached) as Mars was pulling away. Hand held above the 2" diagonal, 1/1000 second @ASA800, Sony NEX7.
Rolando
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Wow Cool Squared!
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Roland Christen
No composite. Just 5 shots taken in quick succession and added together in Photoshop. That's the best I could do with a hand held camera after pulling out the eyepiece.
Rolando
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From: ap@... <ap@...> To: main@ap-gto.groups.io Sent: Thu, Dec 8, 2022 11:44 am Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Mars Occultation from Illinois That is simply amazing, even more so when I read how you did it. I've seen some from people with expensive camera gear that were not nearly as good. If I had just run across it somewhere other than a reliable source would have sworn it was a composite.
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Howard Ritter
Roland—
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That’s as good a scene-setting shot as any I’ve seen even with high-dollar cameras! Great work. —howard
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vk3cjk
That's fantastic Roland - but
I've never tried that handheld method! The colour contrast is so amazing. Here downunder, we didn't get to see the occultation so thanks for sharing your view of it. Cheers, Chris
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