Mars
Imaging Equipment:
Telescope: Takahashi FS-152 f/8 fluorite refractor at f/28 using 20mm eyepiece projection
Zeiss II German Equatorial Mount
Santa Barbara Instrument Group ST-8E NABG CCD camera (1530 x 1020 pixels, 9 x 9mm, monochromatic, 16 bit, 13.8 x 9.2mm array)
CWF8 color filter wheel with IR-blocking red, green and blue dichroic filters
Exposure Information:
Date: Saturday, June 9, 2001
Location: Charlton Flats, CA
Elevation: Approx. 5300', OAT +50F
Exposures: 0.2 seconds, 10 each through red, green and blue filters.
Mars apparent diameter: 20.3 arc-seconds
Raw image scale: 0.43 arc-seconds/pixel. EFL=4300mm. Final image resampled 2x in Photoshop.
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