I imaged "Olympus Mons" the largest “ Volcano ” in the solar system on Mars on 10-18-20 from my backyard in Manorville NY, USA. See was average to above average. Setup was a ZWO ASI224MC "COLOR" camera in a ZWO ADC, "Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector", it reduces prismatic smearing during planetary imaging, resulting in images with finer details and with Baader IR/UV cut Filter and a 2X Tele Vue barlow in a MoonLite focuser on an Edge HD 14". This is a little history about "Olympus Mons" Olympus Mons (Latin for Mount Olympus) is a very large shield volcano on the planet Mars. By one measure, it has a height of nearly 22 km (13.6 mi or 72,000 ft.) Olympus Mons stands about two and a half times as tall as Mount Everest's height above sea level. It is the tallest mountain of all planets and other rounded bodies in the Solar System, and is the second tallest mountain in the Solar System overall, after Rheasilvia on the Asteroid Vesta. It is the youngest of the large volcanoes on Mars, having formed during Mars's Hesperian Period. It is currently the largest volcano discovered in the Solar System and had been known to astronomers since the late 19th century as the albedo feature Nix Olympica (Latin for "Olympic Snow"). Its mountainous nature was suspected well before space probes confirmed its identity as a mountain. The volcano is located in Mars's western hemisphere at approximately 18.65°N 226.2°E, just off the northwestern edge of the Tharsis bulge. The western portion of the volcano lies in the Amazonis quadrangle (MC-8) and the central and eastern portions in the adjoining Tharsis quadrangle (MC-9)
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