Mars.

An average of 444 frames from video taken using my 600 MHz iBook with an OrangeMicro iBot FireWire CCD webcam using BTV Pro mounted with a Mogg webcam adapter on an 127mm f/14.96 Meade ETX125AT Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope with a Scoptronix visual back and a TeleVue 3x Barlow at 10:42 PM on September 10, 2003 in New York, NY. Each of the frames was aligned and averaged using Keith's Image Stacker after subtracting a dark frame from each on my 467MHz PowerMacintosh G4. Distance at 0.3879 au and increasing. Longitude of central meridian: 244.8 deg. Apparent diameter is 24.13 arcsec. Altitude: +28°deg;56'45" (with refraction: +28°deg;58'32")

Image © 2003 by Taras R. Hnatyshyn

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