[AZ-Observing] Re: Best Mars so far--Monday Morning

Interesting the difference where one observes.  I observed Mars around
10 pm and 1 pm Saturday night at my place near Prescott.  I could make
out definite dark areas with well defined edges, although the disk edge
itself was not steady.  At 1 pm things had improved somewhat from what
it had been at 10 pm.  At 10 pm the double-double in epsilon Lyrae was
split at 130 magnification. 

Stan


Frank Kraljic wrote:
> 
> I initially thought Steve was being sarcastic with the first line of his
> report, but apparently he had a better view of Mars from the backyard of his
> metro-Phoenix home than I from my north Scottsdale residence.
> 
> Prior to midnight, I could manage sharp contrast views of the red planet at
> 225x with a 10" F5.5 Dobsonian.  Unfortunately, by 2:20AM Mars became a
> blurry orange wash characterized by the same rapid east to west air movement
> Tom Polakis described a week ago.  Needless to say, I did not catch the
> potential Edom flare(s) predicted for the time.
> 
> -FRANK
>
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