December 8, 2022

Mars & Luna (Dec. 8, 2022, around 3 a.m. UT)

 

These are best 50% of a couple of 300-frame SER videos made with the QHY 5iii485c camera through my wonderful 6" f/8 Newtonian with Spooner-finished mirror.  The light from Mars took 4.57 minutes to go from Mars to Earth and the light from the Moon took 1.32 seconds. Moon, 395300 km; Mars, 82.2 million km.  So by the time I took this picture, Mars had moved.

Below is a single frame, perhaps the best of the night.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Magnificent!!!

Polaris B said...

Thanks! It was a lot of fun.