This enhanced processing of Navcam Left images shows several dust devils moving across the floor of Arabia Terra, just outside of Jezero crater.

The largest dust devil in the foreground is at least 300m high.

The original sequence lasts about 2.5 minutes and was taken around 12:26 local mean solar time.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

Tags:   Perseverance NASA Mars Mars2020 space

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Credit: Don Pettit / NASA JSC / ESRS / Simeon Schmauß

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Taken from the best 104 of 150 frames of an SER file shot with a ZWO ASI224MC camera with UV/IR Cut filter through the C14 at Cerritos College. Frames were stacked in AutoStakkert, sharpened and color corrected in PixInsight. The resulting image was touched up in GIMP.

This shows Mars emerging from behind the lunar limb at 2025-01-14 02:45:11 UTC. Mare Undarum appears at the left edge of the frame, and the crater Neper is visible just above where Mars appears.

Tags:   Moon Mars occultation Cerritos College craters red planet solar system Mare Undarum

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Seeing was not as good as for the 2025--01-02 image

This from 12 30 s SER files taken with a ZWO ASI224MC camera with 3x Barlow and a ZWO UV/IR cut filter through the C14 at Cerritos College. I used FIreCapture to take this data. SER files were used to create stacks of the best 15% of about 800 frames in AutoStakkert, and those stacks were processed in PixInsight. The resulting images were registered and derotated in WinJUPOS, with the result undergoing some final tweaks in GIMP.

CM I: 77.2°
CM II: 96.3°
CM III: 251.2°

Tags:   Jupiter solar system planet Great Red Spot astronomy Cerritos College

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Comet C/2024 G3 as seen by the SOHO LASCO C3 coronagraph.

Credit: ESA / NASA / LASCO C3 / Simeon Schmauß

I processed this from the raw data which looks a lot different - it's dominated by sunglare, so it's hard to see the stars or the solar wind. The comet nucleus is also very overexposed, which I repaired in this version.

Raw data: umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/pub/lasco/lastimage/level_05/

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