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Rick Foster wrote:
We have "noticed" it, between these times, and I didn't mean to indicate that it is stationary in the sky. I have never seen it rise, but I am sure it must. At 3AM it is fairly high in the sky, but I have never stayed up later to see it set. We watched last night, as the Earth rotated, and this golden "star" moved along the top of the apt. building we live in. As usual Min's advice is misleading, to say the least. You're almost certainly seeing the planet Mars, which is approaching opposition (which it will reach near the end of August) and so rises around sunset. Try looking ESE near the horizon just a little earlier in the evening and you should see it shining steadily while the stars around it are 'twinkling' -- this effect is characteristic of planets. --Odysseus |
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You are most certainly seeing the planet Mars, which is VERY bright at this
time and will get brighter until its closest approach in August. Here is a photograph taken at my observatory last week showing its unique reddish/gold color and white polar ice cap. www.machunter.org/genes_work/gene_mars.html Hap Griffin www.machunter.org "Odysseus" wrote in message ... Rick Foster wrote: We have "noticed" it, between these times, and I didn't mean to indicate that it is stationary in the sky. I have never seen it rise, but I am sure it must. At 3AM it is fairly high in the sky, but I have never stayed up later to see it set. We watched last night, as the Earth rotated, and this golden "star" moved along the top of the apt. building we live in. As usual Min's advice is misleading, to say the least. You're almost certainly seeing the planet Mars, which is approaching opposition (which it will reach near the end of August) and so rises around sunset. Try looking ESE near the horizon just a little earlier in the evening and you should see it shining steadily while the stars around it are 'twinkling' -- this effect is characteristic of planets. --Odysseus |
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(formerly)" dlzc1.cox@net wrote in message news:_91Oa.119957$hd6.119117@fed1read05... Dear Hap Griffin: "Hap Griffin" wrote in message . com... You are most certainly seeing the planet Mars, which is VERY bright at this time and will get brighter until its closest approach in August. Here is a photograph taken at my observatory last week showing its unique reddish/gold color and white polar ice cap. www.machunter.org/genes_work/gene_mars.html Broken link. Spelling error? Sorry. We have a screwy server directory nomenclature. Go to www.machunter and then click on Astrophoto Gallery. Then go to Gene's Astrophotos and check out the Mars shot. Hap |
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"Hap Griffin" wrote in message . com... (formerly)" dlzc1.cox@net wrote in message news:_91Oa.119957$hd6.119117@fed1read05... Dear Hap Griffin: "Hap Griffin" wrote in message . com... You are most certainly seeing the planet Mars, which is VERY bright at this time and will get brighter until its closest approach in August. Here is a photograph taken at my observatory last week showing its unique reddish/gold color and white polar ice cap. www.machunter.org/genes_work/gene_mars.html Broken link. Spelling error? Sorry. We have a screwy server directory nomenclature. Go to www.machunter and then click on Astrophoto Gallery. Then go to Gene's Astrophotos and check out the Mars shot. That's www.machunter.org. Hap |
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Hap Griffin wrote:
(formerly)" dlzc1.cox@net wrote in message news:_91Oa.119957$hd6.119117@fed1read05... "Hap Griffin" wrote in message . com... www.machunter.org/genes_work/gene_mars.html Broken link. Spelling error? Sorry. We have a screwy server directory nomenclature. Go to www.machunter and then click on Astrophoto Gallery. Then go to Gene's Astrophotos and check out the Mars shot. I tried that earlier; let's see if anything's changed ... nope. Clicking on "Mars Images" on the page titled "Gene's CDD Astrophotos" (should that be "CCD"?) shows a page-connot-be-found screen. --Odysseus |
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www.machunter.org/ then clicking on "Astrophotography Gallery",
then "Gene Hunter's Photos", and finally "Mars Images" got me to the page with the single Mars image in IE 5.5, but gets an error message on the final step in Navigator 4.05. Any idea why the iconic Mars image looks better than the object of our quest? It seems more fully-illuminated. Is it actually the same image? -- Jeff, in Minneapolis .. |
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