At the 27th
of August
the
bright red
shining
planet
approached to a distance of lausy
55.76 million kilometers
to the earth. This
constellation
did experienced also the good old Neandertaler race
60000 years
before. In the year 2287 the red planet with its 6.4 x 1023 kg will
come to a similarly close distance.
But there will be the big question if mankind will observe this
happening again because of its well known boundless peaceableness
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Notice!
The
south pole cap of Mars is always downside. The real view through a
telescope shows it upset down.
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Baader observatory: Mammendorf / Bavaria
The GIF animation (above) of Martin shows Mars with a turn of 1,5 h -
> 3:45h-5:15h Central European Summer Time at the 24.7.03 (10”
Maksutov). The seeing was again bad,
means
Martin. (???
T.B.)
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Baader observatory
23.8.03 |
Mars
on
27.8.03 |
a current Mars picture of the Baader observatory 3
o'clock
Saturday morning
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The
interesting
thing
thereby:
the IRGB picture contains
additionally an IR channel, the details becomes higher-contrast!
Disadvantage, we had a bad seeing because of a too late air -
flushing of the
observation
dome. (Martin Rietze)
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Press on Mars, then you will get the planet as a
GIF animation (by
M.Rietze)
On the right the FRG in the size comparison
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The High
End
of the
astro
photography and the pertinent technology is represented
above.
For
'normal mortal
ones'
the
following
pictures
should encourage
how
to
reach
a
good
result with a
150 mm
Newton
(Siberia). However,
with this
photos
the end of the
'flag
bar'
was reached.
Pole cap comparison
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2.8.2003
Mars
on
2.8.2003 around 4:30 in the
morning.
MESZ
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2.9.2003
Mars
on
2.9.2003 around 1:30,
MESZ. The
CO2
pole cap was
melted up within remaining an eternal
H2O
remainder. |
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Quite remarkably is the change of size from 22,5"(2.8.2003) to 25,1"
(2.09.2003) arcsec by watching through the telescope. Focal length apprx. 9
m. The diameter of the Mars disk appears 22,1 arcsec corresponding to an
Euro coin
(2cm)
regarded from a distance of
180
m. To mark is that on the 2nd
of August the view in the morning was very well .(photos, TB)
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Closest distance to Earth!
Mars at the
27th
of Aug.
2003
around 2:00 in the morning,
Central European Summer Time .
(original 40% bigger)
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Look, how the planet appears live in the amateur telescope
Click on button
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For
these photographs a modified CCD- chip (1.2
M-pixels) from
aWeb Cam as
well as a high performance computer is the first
condition.
This has the following reason. For example the upper composition (2.8.03) is
an excerpt of 400 pictures. Astronomical programs such as Giotto or Registax
can divide the taken Avi -clip into individual bit-maps, and than center and
adjust the best choice. By the frame representation only a reasonable
selecting becomes possible. The 5 x overlay from the best pictures however
was made here by hand
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further observations
part
II
        
All planet observations
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