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First Mars of the season

Actually, first Mars ever: October 7th, 2007, 5h05UT, diameter 10.1 arc seconds, altitude 62 deg, phase 87%.

Animated gif comparing CalSky with the real thing.

mars3.gif

Airy disk Wiener deconvolved, 2x drizzle, 32 frames out of 2400 stacked:

m1-plus-m2-decovolved.jpg

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