Thick clouds and TV producers

"Laury" wrote in message
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Tonight's BBC 6 pm news (national) did a short piece on Mars. It
showed a sequence moving from day to night, with Mars high in the
sky, and then to the setting of Mars.

In this sequence, Mars rose on the right and set on the left. Pretty
fundamental blunder, unless they thought their only viewers were
down-under!

Hooray for TV's science coverage!


Last night's ITV coverage (on Ch 4) used video from Australia, where the
Mars seen through the telescope was pretty obviously out of focus. I also
saw a brief sequence that showed Mars more like what you see, a little
orange-pink blur with a white polar cap and lots of seeing wobble, but at
least it was focussed.

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Mike Dworetsky

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