{"id":218,"date":"2012-02-03T01:17:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T01:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=218"},"modified":"2012-02-03T13:50:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T13:50:52","slug":"mars-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/03\/mars-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Mars is finally getting into a position where I can image it at a reasonable hour of the day (or night).<\/p>\n<p>So, ths evening I had a doze in bed for most of it before getting outside and attempting to get at least one image of Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Mars is rather more difficult to image tham Jupiter due to it being far smaller. Thankfully, for Christmas I got a 5x magnification lens which allows me to make the image on the &#8220;webcam&#8221; camera large enough to even attempt the task. Even so, with the degree of atmospheric disturbance I never thought I could get anything decent tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Well, surprisingly, after a bit of processing in Registax, this is what I managed to obtain:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-219\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/03\/mars-attacks\/mars_20120203_0020_01\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"219\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/03\/mars-attacks\/mars_20120203_0020_01\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mars_20120203_0020_01.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mars_20120203_0020_01\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mars_20120203_0020_01-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mars_20120203_0020_01.jpg\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-219\" title=\"Mars_20120203_0020_01\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mars_20120203_0020_01.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mars_20120203_0020_01.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mars_20120203_0020_01-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mars_20120203_0020_01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Mars_20120203_0020_01-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Mars is finally getting into a position where I can image it at a reasonable hour of the day (or night). 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