2024-07-(19-20) - Mars and star

[atomic cliff]

Woah! I've never seen someone here capture Deimos, let alone Deimos' movement around Mars, that's pretty awesome!

Also I just noticed the ice caps are visible in your image above, that's pretty cool (pun intended) for an 8"

Sure seems like it

Ah well, isn't Phobos the smaller of the two anyway? Probably a lot more difficult even with good positioning and fantastic seeing

Oh ok, damn

I'm a little rusty it would seem

all that tells me though is that you've captured the more difficult one of the two, so with ideal positioning and seeing you could theoretically get both of them, which is pretty neat to think about

Well, good luck and clear skies!

[gloomy knot]

They get much easier nearer to opposition

as they're basically star-like so distance from Earth makes all the difference.

I was getting phobos in normal 8-bit captures of Mars last opposition. Don't even need different settings

ofc

it's just nicer as the glare isn't an issue when running normal captures

You can get Phobos literally arcseconds away from the limb if seeing is good.

what were the time stamps on this btw?

No I mean UTC range?

sorry

No worries

Ok, so turns out that's not Deimos haha. 99% sure it's a mag +11 background star. You've captured the orbital motion of Mars. Deimos is some ~5 magnitudes dimmer.

Arguably cooler

Deimos is way too slow to move that far over 16 mins

would take hours

Yeah, it gets very close

cool though

But yeah, 16mins would be insane to have Deimos move like ~10x Mars diameter

[faint zodiac]

2024-07-(19-20) - Mars and star

[gloomy knot]

If you push the data more you might get Deimos

I'm not sure

I assume you stopped when you saw the mag 11 star, so it might be hidden in there

Do a stack of stacks as Deimos is at greatest elongation and doesn't move much at all over 15mins so you can integrate all of it

[gloomy knot]

Christ. I thought my schedule was bad

you're 12 hours off haha