Mars 6-7 Aug at Mill Hill

Long observing session at University of London Observatory, London NW7, last
night, using 8-inch Fry refractor (1862-vintage Cooke). Mars had its "less
interesting" side turned towards Earth but at times we had fairly good
seeing despite warm temperatures and high humidity. Took some video footage
through filters for combining frames later, and CCD colour images. We will
mount these on our web site ASAP. Seeing was best from about 2-3.30am BST.

We could see a small bright dot on the limb near the N polar regions of Mars
(pole cap peeking over the horizon?) and the S polar cap has shrunk
considerably in the past few weeks. Also, it appeared to us, around 3am
BST, that there were hazy clouds along much of the morning (east in the sky)
limb.

Mike Dworetsky, Francisco Diego

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Long observing session at University of London Observatory, London NW7,
last
night, using 8-inch Fry refractor (1862-vintage Cooke). Mars had its
"less
interesting" side turned towards Earth but at times we had fairly good
seeing despite warm temperatures and high humidity. Took some video
footage
through filters for combining frames later, and CCD colour images. We
will
mount these on our web site ASAP. Seeing was best from about 2-3.30am
BST.

We could see a small bright dot on the limb near the N polar regions of
Mars
(pole cap peeking over the horizon?) and the S polar cap has shrunk
considerably in the past few weeks. Also, it appeared to us, around 3am
BST, that there were hazy clouds along much of the morning (east in the
sky)
limb.

Mike Dworetsky, Francisco Diego


There are now a few images in the "News" section of the Observatory web
site, but would you believe it, the whole site is temporarily down, a
malfunction that needs sorting out tomorrow after our IT expert gets back
from a mandatory course in first aid. :-)

http://www.ulo.ucl.ac.uk




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Mike Dworetsky

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"Mike Dworetsky" wrote in message
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Long observing session at University of London Observatory, London NW7,
last
night, using 8-inch Fry refractor (1862-vintage Cooke). Mars had its
"less
interesting" side turned towards Earth but at times we had fairly good
seeing despite warm temperatures and high humidity. Took some video
footage
through filters for combining frames later, and CCD colour images. We
will
mount these on our web site ASAP. Seeing was best from about 2-3.30am
BST.

We could see a small bright dot on the limb near the N polar regions of
Mars
(pole cap peeking over the horizon?) and the S polar cap has shrunk
considerably in the past few weeks. Also, it appeared to us, around 3am
BST, that there were hazy clouds along much of the morning (east in the
sky)
limb.

Mike Dworetsky, Francisco Diego


There are now a few images in the "News" section of the Observatory web
site, but would you believe it, the whole site is temporarily down, a
malfunction that needs sorting out tomorrow after our IT expert gets back
from a mandatory course in first aid. :-)

http://www.ulo.ucl.ac.uk




--
Mike Dworetsky

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"Mike Dworetsky" wrote in message
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Long observing session at University of London Observatory, London NW7,
last
night, using 8-inch Fry refractor (1862-vintage Cooke). Mars had its
"less
interesting" side turned towards Earth but at times we had fairly good
seeing despite warm temperatures and high humidity. Took some video
footage
through filters for combining frames later, and CCD colour images. We
will
mount these on our web site ASAP. Seeing was best from about 2-3.30am
BST.

We could see a small bright dot on the limb near the N polar regions of
Mars
(pole cap peeking over the horizon?) and the S polar cap has shrunk
considerably in the past few weeks. Also, it appeared to us, around 3am
BST, that there were hazy clouds along much of the morning (east in the
sky)
limb.

Mike Dworetsky, Francisco Diego

At the risk of seeming to talk only to myself, there is now another image of
Mars from the video we took--a coadd of about 200 selected frames
(unfiltered) showing Mars at 0107 UT on 8th August. We have used an albedo
map to put names to features.

Last night (11-12 Aug) the seeing was very poor so no observing was
possible.

--
Mike Dworetsky

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"Mike Dworetsky" wrote in message
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Long observing session at University of London Observatory, London NW7,
last
night, using 8-inch Fry refractor (1862-vintage Cooke). Mars had its
"less
interesting" side turned towards Earth but at times we had fairly good
seeing despite warm temperatures and high humidity. Took some video
footage
through filters for combining frames later, and CCD colour images. We
will
mount these on our web site ASAP. Seeing was best from about 2-3.30am
BST.

We could see a small bright dot on the limb near the N polar regions of
Mars
(pole cap peeking over the horizon?) and the S polar cap has shrunk
considerably in the past few weeks. Also, it appeared to us, around 3am
BST, that there were hazy clouds along much of the morning (east in the
sky)
limb.

Mike Dworetsky, Francisco Diego

At the risk of seeming to talk only to myself, there is now another image of
Mars from the video we took--a coadd of about 200 selected frames
(unfiltered) showing Mars at 0107 UT on 8th August. We have used an albedo
map to put names to features.

Last night (11-12 Aug) the seeing was very poor so no observing was
possible.

--
Mike Dworetsky

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"Mike Dworetsky" wrote in message
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"Mike Dworetsky" wrote in message
...
Long observing session at University of London Observatory, London NW7,
last
night, using 8-inch Fry refractor (1862-vintage Cooke). Mars had its
"less
interesting" side turned towards Earth but at times we had fairly good
seeing despite warm temperatures and high humidity. Took some video
footage
through filters for combining frames later, and CCD colour images. We
will
mount these on our web site ASAP. Seeing was best from about 2-3.30am
BST.

We could see a small bright dot on the limb near the N polar regions of
Mars
(pole cap peeking over the horizon?) and the S polar cap has shrunk
considerably in the past few weeks. Also, it appeared to us, around 3am
BST, that there were hazy clouds along much of the morning (east in the
sky)
limb.

Mike Dworetsky, Francisco Diego

At the risk of seeming to talk only to myself, there is now another image
of
Mars from the video we took--a coadd of about 200 selected frames
(unfiltered) showing Mars at 0107 UT on 8th August. We have used an
albedo
map to put names to features.


Sorry, make that 7th August! It's getting too late to avoid typos...

Last night (11-12 Aug) the seeing was very poor so no observing was
possible.

--
Mike Dworetsky

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"Mike Dworetsky" wrote in message
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Long observing session at University of London Observatory, London NW7,
last
night, using 8-inch Fry refractor (1862-vintage Cooke). Mars had its
"less
interesting" side turned towards Earth but at times we had fairly good
seeing despite warm temperatures and high humidity. Took some video
footage
through filters for combining frames later, and CCD colour images. We
will
mount these on our web site ASAP. Seeing was best from about 2-3.30am
BST.

We could see a small bright dot on the limb near the N polar regions of
Mars
(pole cap peeking over the horizon?) and the S polar cap has shrunk
considerably in the past few weeks. Also, it appeared to us, around 3am
BST, that there were hazy clouds along much of the morning (east in the
sky)
limb.

Mike Dworetsky, Francisco Diego

At the risk of seeming to talk only to myself, there is now another image
of
Mars from the video we took--a coadd of about 200 selected frames
(unfiltered) showing Mars at 0107 UT on 8th August. We have used an
albedo
map to put names to features.


Sorry, make that 7th August! It's getting too late to avoid typos...

Last night (11-12 Aug) the seeing was very poor so no observing was
possible.

--
Mike Dworetsky

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Still can't find the images Mike, not in 'news' or any other section. Where
are they?

Still can't find the images Mike, not in 'news' or any other section. Where
are they?

"John Moore" wrote in message
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Still can't find the images Mike, not in 'news' or any other section.
Where
are they?



http://www.ulo.ucl.ac.uk/images/mars2003/index.html

Accessible by link on the home page, beneath pic of the Radcliffe telescope.

What has happened is that they haven't also been linked via the news link.
I'll get that fixed later today.

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Mike Dworetsky

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