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Is it too late to see Mars?
I live in South East England, is it too late for me to see Mars with the
naked eye? If not when and where should I look? TIA. -- Regards. Chris. Please remove MAPSON (NOSPAM backwards) to reply to me by email. |
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"Chris Mitchell" wrote in message ... I live in South East England, is it too late for me to see Mars with the naked eye? If not when and where should I look? TIA. Not too late. It'll be visible for several months. Depends on the time of night. It is now rising soon after dusk, in the ESE. By about 2pm, it gets to due south. If you take your 'clenched fist' at arms length as a 'ruler', it should be about two and a half 'fists' above your southern horizon at this time. Best Wishes |
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In message , Roger
Hamlett writes "Chris Mitchell" wrote in message ... I live in South East England, is it too late for me to see Mars with the naked eye? If not when and where should I look? TIA. Not too late. It'll be visible for several months. Depends on the time of night. It is now rising soon after dusk, in the ESE. By about 2pm, it gets to due south. Shouldn't that be 1 am, BST (midnight GMT)? Opposition was last month, when it was due south at local midnight. But Mars is now so bright you can't possibly miss it. The only thing brighter in the night sky is the Moon, which will be full and nearby on September 10. -- "Forty millions of miles it was from us, more than forty millions of miles of void" |
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 04:05:00 +0000 (UTC), "Chris Mitchell"
wrote: I live in South East England, is it too late for me to see Mars with the naked eye? I live in South east england too, and should see Mars with the naked eye till about the end of Dec, and with a scope till about mar/apr 2004 Its the brightest object in the night sky (apart from the moon) and its in the South East, best times to view are from 23:00 (very low on the horizon) until about 02:30 AM when its fairly high in the sky. There is no moon in the southern sky for the next week or so, so Mars really is the brightest object you can see. If you know what direction south/ south east is, look in that direction at about 23:00 tonight make a fist hold it out at arms length, then put another fist on top of it, and the bright light somewhere around the top of your second fist is Mars. -- --- The two most abundant elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. Why is the ratio of Hydrogen to Stupidity less in usenet than anywhere else in the universe? |
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"Jonathan Silverlight" wrote in message ... In message , Roger Hamlett writes "Chris Mitchell" wrote in message ... I live in South East England, is it too late for me to see Mars with the naked eye? If not when and where should I look? TIA. Not too late. It'll be visible for several months. Depends on the time of night. It is now rising soon after dusk, in the ESE. By about 2pm, it gets to due south. Shouldn't that be 1 am, BST (midnight GMT)? Opposition was last month, when it was due south at local midnight. But Mars is now so bright you can't possibly miss it. The only thing brighter in the night sky is the Moon, which will be full and nearby on September 10. Yes. I put pm in by mistake, I have been shooting a lot of solar images recently... Just checked 12:54am local time. Best Wishes |
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You can see Mars any time it is above the horizon at night.
RM "Roger Hamlett" wrote in message ... "Chris Mitchell" wrote in message ... I live in South East England, is it too late for me to see Mars with the naked eye? If not when and where should I look? TIA. Not too late. It'll be visible for several months. Depends on the time of night. It is now rising soon after dusk, in the ESE. By about 2pm, it gets to due south. If you take your 'clenched fist' at arms length as a 'ruler', it should be about two and a half 'fists' above your southern horizon at this time. Best Wishes |
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Ron Seems Mars being three times closer cuts time our probes going to
Mars,but does being three times closer make viewing all that much better for the Hubble? Has to help,but Mars is not that far away when the Hubble can see 13 billion miles away. What is a few 35 million miles one way or the other? Bert |
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Bert posted:
Seems Mars being three times closer cuts time our probes going to Mars,but does being three times closer make viewing all that much better for the Hubble? Yes, it does. The resolution of the images taken last week exceeds that of any previous HST image of Mars. Finer details which were not well shown in images from previous oppositions are now visible, such as the sides of some of the canyons and numerous craters. Has to help,but Mars is not that far away when the Hubble can see 13 billion miles away. What is a few 35 million miles one way or the other? 13 billion *miles*?? I can see one heck of a lot farther away than that with my unaided eye on a dark night! I can see over 3 billion *light years* with my telescope (quasar 3C-273). -- David W. Knisely Prairie Astronomy Club: http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org Hyde Memorial Observatory: http://www.hydeobservatory.info/ ********************************************** * Attend the 10th Annual NEBRASKA STAR PARTY * * July 27-Aug. 1st, 2003, Merritt Reservoir * * http://www.NebraskaStarParty.org * ********************************************** |
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