On December 7, 2022, Mars partially occulted the Moon. At locations north of mine, it Mars completely disappeared behind the Moon for a time which is known as occultation. We had tough sky conditions which made it difficult to get the closest approach, or to have time to shoot through color filters, so the Moon/Mars images above are all in grayscale. Nonetheless, it was fun to see this pairing through a telescope and the naked eye views were spectacular, too.
The short video clip is the little project I was working on while waiting for the Moon & Mars to clear my trees and be close enough to fit in the telescope view. Luckily, Jupiter was in prime position with the Great Red Spot transiting the disk. I took images about 10 minutes apart to make a time-lapse which covers a total time of about 40 minutes but is sped up to be just a few seconds. I'm hoping to try this same technique again on Jupiter, as well as some of solar prominences.
Photo Details
December 7, 2022
Astrotech AT65-Q
ZWO ASI178MM
SharpCap - 8 Bit Mono through RGB filters
Image Stacking in AutoStakkert
Adjustments in Registax 6
Final Adjustments in Photoshop
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