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Mars
Posted: Aug 10 2003 11:44 am
by Nighthiker
Full moon this week, but get a chance to look at the planet Mars, its quite bright.
Posted: Aug 10 2003 4:03 pm
by Billy
My friend, you're so cool
I love your posts, I can almost see and feel your experiences, or at least feel the longing, and wanting desire, to be out there experiencing those very same things.
Posted: Aug 12 2003 7:27 pm
by Cakewalk
And once again the full moon will drown out the big meteor shower tonite!!
Moon =
Posted: Aug 12 2003 7:48 pm
by Nighthiker
But is still is a good reason to sleep out under the stars
Posted: Aug 12 2003 9:17 pm
by mttgilbert
I'm thinking of heading out to the goldfields one of these weekends with a telescope to take a look at the red planet. might be a good excuse to sleep under the stars.
Posted: Aug 20 2003 7:55 am
by Wiz
FYI, if you have a telescope, Mars will be just as good from your front yard as it will from the Goldfields.
Posted: Aug 20 2003 3:49 pm
by mttgilbert
Yeah but generally I'll take any excuse to get outside of the city, besides the overall night sky is so much nicer outside city limits. Of course with a limited supply of gas, I might just have to make the best of my backyard.
re:
Posted: Aug 21 2003 6:12 am
by plummer150
Isn't it Aug. 27 at 5am est?
Posted: Sep 06 2003 4:03 pm
by Nighthiker
Trying to observe Mars lately has been a bummer. Laying in a lawn chair out in the desert SE of Florence Jct. the toads serenaded me to sleep and woke up the next morning with a roadrunner checking me out.
Posted: Sep 06 2003 4:12 pm
by Dschur
In response to Nighthiker's reply: This is a picture that my husband took of Mars from our backyard the seeing wasn't very good. It was taken with a webcam.
Posted: Sep 08 2003 7:10 am
by Wiz
In response to Dschur's reply:
GREAT pictures of Mars! That's what Iwant to do, but I don't have a web cam - just a camera which doesn't work as well. What kind of telescope did he use?
Thanks for the pics!
PS The Mars seeing has been pretty miserable all season, but we can only take 'en as they come, right?
Posted: Sep 13 2003 2:42 pm
by Nighthiker
Camped North of Payson this week, Mars was fantastic and so was the moon. went on a night mtn. bike ride along the contol road (Tonto Forest Road 64).
Posted: Sep 14 2003 3:09 pm
by Dschur
In response to Wiz's reply: He has a homemade 12.5 Newtonian. And most of the time uses his ST8 (CCD camera) Except at the cabin in Happy Jack there he uses a Schimitt Camera....We have 2 observatories...
Posted: Sep 14 2003 5:15 pm
by Billy
Sounds beautiful Nighthiker.