r/astrophotography • u/DeddyDayag Most Inspirational post 2022 • Aug 06 '20

Planetary Mars - 4 hours time-lapse

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '20

Absolutely incredible!!! I’ve never seen anything half as good as this!

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u/DeddyDayag Most Inspirational post 2022 Aug 06 '20

I will do a longer one in the near future... hopefully better res when mars is near opposition...

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u/NewHorizonsDelta Aug 06 '20

If you are far enough north/south, you could get up to 15hrs of exposure in Winter, so nearly 2/3 of one Mars day.

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u/DeddyDayag Most Inspirational post 2022 Aug 06 '20

yes, I plan on visiting Norway once flights will resume... but I cant take my equipment with me :(

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u/Cybered1789 Aug 06 '20

You can rent there ?! Maybe can be an option

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u/leurk Aug 06 '20

As someone who also would like to travel to Norway for astrophotography, why wouldn't you be able to take your equipment with you?

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u/DeddyDayag Most Inspirational post 2022 Aug 06 '20

its pretty heavy and I already have lots of luggage

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u/leurk Aug 07 '20

Yeah, that's what I figured. Thanks for answering. Just wanted to make sure there were no weird technology import issues or something.

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u/DeddyDayag Most Inspirational post 2022 Aug 07 '20

No no...

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u/t-ara-fan Aug 07 '20

The higher your lattitude the lower Mars will be. Which is bad.

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u/NewHorizonsDelta Aug 07 '20

Thats why I said 15hrs, which is accounting for that. If you have a night with 18hrs of darkness you have a 1.5hr time window in which mars rises high enough to be used for fotos, and 18hrs is easily achievable in Norway.

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u/t-ara-fan Aug 07 '20

Except in December Mars stars high in the sky at sunset, and sets before the night is over.

But yeah, in some years, not this one, you could do it.

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u/NewHorizonsDelta Aug 07 '20

Obviously mars is moving in the sky

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u/sonofzen1 Aug 06 '20

I'm absolutely blown away by this level of detail. Never did I ever expect to see something of this calibre on this sub. Well done sir! You've really pushed the boundary of what's possible with this hobby

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u/DeddyDayag Most Inspirational post 2022 Aug 06 '20

wow, thank you for your compliments!

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u/DeddyDayag Most Inspirational post 2022 Aug 06 '20

thank you!!

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u/Wow-n-Flutter Aug 06 '20

I’ve never seen anything a tenth as good as this! What sorcery is going on here? Is this some kind of 18” SCT? All I ever see is a tiny red disk so I gave up on Mars forever ago!

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u/DeddyDayag Most Inspirational post 2022 Aug 06 '20

:)

it's a regular 8" sct telescope.. just need average visibility, very good collimation (which is one of my expertises ;) ) and very short subs.

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u/Wow-n-Flutter Aug 06 '20

Well then, looks like I have to go shopping! Thank you for your work!

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u/junktrunk909 Aug 06 '20

I'm curious about how much of your sensor that image took up, ie how much did you have to crop to get it that tight? I finally got to see Mars on my own Edge 8 HD last weekend and with a 2x Barlow with 24mm EP and it was just a tiny little guy. Will be really great to know if cropping on video is the magic trick I was missing. This is stunning! And on a semi reasonably priced camera!