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[Paul G. Abel]

Hi all,

 

Mars continues to dominate the southern skies and on 23rd September I made two drawings using the University’s 20” Planewave Dall-Kirkham.  Average seeing in drawing 1 but it conditions had started to fall off by drawing 2. The SPC is now very small and I had fine views of Mare Chronium and Cimmerium. Elysium still rather obscure.

 

Best wishes,

-Paul

 

[deepwoods1]

Thank you for posting this as side by side! It makes it easy to cross my eyes to give a 3D look.

[niteskystargazer]

Paul,

 

Very nice sketched of  Mars: 23rd September 2018  .

 

CS,KLU,

 

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Tom

[agmoonsolns]

Stunning work!

[Sasa]

Excellent work, Paul. I noticed that vast majority of recent images, and sketches through large telescopes, like yours, show now white/bright region at northern pole. I'm consistently seeing there bright white region night by night in my 60 and 82mm refractors. Is this some trick to eye? Have you tried to look at Mars with something smaller? I have no explanation for what I'm seeing.

[Pbinder]

Love these

[Paul G. Abel]

Hi all!  Thanks for the kind remarks.

 

Sasa: The brightness towards the north is likely to be bright clouds from the northern polar region- it is winter in Mars' northern hemisphere and while the apparent disk size is large this is probably what you're seeing.

 

Cheers,

-Paul