After spending nearly a week processing this data I proudly present my new time-lapse of the red planet, I don't know if this is lucky but my 2022 and 2020 are very similar in terms of capturing the same side of the planet. This was taken on two different days: December 17, 2022 between 4:06 and 8:32 and December 15 between 7:24 and 9 UTC which is why there is a sudden appearance of clouds toward the end of the time-lapse. If you look closely some clouds can be seen moving and dissipating just north of center in the "first" part of the video.

Details: 109x2 minute videos shot over a period of 6 hours in average-very good seeing conditions. The best frames from each video were stacked using AutoStakkert. Then for each stack, wavelets, rgb alignment, denoise and white balance done in AstroSurface. Final denoise and color adjustments done in GIMP using G-MIC and batch image manipulation. To make the time-lapse I used Davinci Resolve to align/rotate frames, and PIPP to convert to GIF.

Gear: Skywatcher 10" GoTo Dob, X-Cel 2x (used 3x when seeing was very good), ZWO ADC, ASI178mc + UV/IR cut

P.S. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

Kerbal astronomers looking at duna trying to find where jeb is stranded at

Happy Holidays and great work! I can’t believe the detail you were able to get out of those images!

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Can you imagine looking at this same image but seeing a cluster of lights? Some straight lines, some circles and knowing humans are living there.