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It's 11:30 pm MEST (UTC +2h) over here and a beautiful, mild and clear high-pressure night. My Celestron 8 inch telescope is set up, cooling down and waiting in the garden for Mars to climb up behind our huge trees. In one hour and 20 minutes Mars is going to transit the South Meridian right in a visible hole between the branches;-). Altitude ~20 degrees, size of Mars: 24.7 ", i.e. still pretty big...

I suppose, it's going to be a great show, since the air is steady and at "time zero", Syrtis Major will just start to move into view...

Bye Fridger

good look!!!!! have a nice red watching!!!!

ElPelado wrote:good look!!!!! have a nice red watching!!!!

Unfortunately, the seeing was quite miserable, despite the apparently nice weather! The air was most unsteady, such that I could not make out many details. Tomorrow, the weather will change towards rain, and such weather changes can often be noticed much earlier in the sky...

Bye Fridger

t00fri wrote:

ElPelado wrote:good look!!!!! have a nice red watching!!!!

Unfortunately, the seeing was quite miserable, despite the apparently nice weather! The air was most unsteady, such that I could not make out many details. Tomorrow, the weather will change towards rain, and such weather changes can often be noticed much earlier in the sky...

Bye Fridger

Climb a mountain then!

I dont even have a functioning telescope to see Mars...I am hoping someday I can afford to get one...by then Mars will have moved back to the far orbit probably...

Rassilon wrote:
Climb a mountain then!

Rass, you just made a nice joke...Where I live, the highest 'mountain' is 57 meters high (with a cross on the 'summit' and a book to inscribe your name...)

I dont even have a functioning telescope to see Mars...I am hoping someday I can afford to get one...by then Mars will have moved back to the far orbit probably...

Never thought of making one for yourself, it can really be done with little money. The efford is most rewarding!

Bye Fridger