[AZ-Observing] Re: No Daytime Mars
- From: "Frank Martin" <fmartin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:26:42 -0700
Boy Tom you must be in a cool place in the valley. It got all the way down
to 94F at my home, but the view was worth it.
Frank Martin
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[mailto:az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tom Polakis
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 7:23 AM
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Subject: [AZ-Observing] No Daytime Mars
This morning, Mars was only a couple degrees away from the moon and the
sky was mostly cloudfree, so I took a shot at Mars during the day. I
began looking at 5:40, 9 minutes before sunrise. After locating Mars
with 10x30mm binoculars, Mars was visible to its upper left with unaided
vision. Within the next few minutes, I lost Mars naked-eye, but was able
to follow it well past sunrise in the binos.
With a dew point of 65F, transparency was not the best. I did notice
that the backyard temperature at sunrise on my thermometer had cooled by
5 degrees form the previous morning, all the way down to 86F.
Tom
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