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January 27, 2010 on 3:57 pm | In Mars, Planets | Comments Off
Today Mars is at his closest approach to Earth, just 62 million miles away! In two days, Mars will be at opposition to earth, which means the sun is exactly opposite of Mars. It was not too cold outside so I also decided to make an animation of one hour rotation, and captured an image every 10 minutes for one hour. Clouds are seen over Tempe, Arcadia and Ganges/Candor and Olympus Mons and the morning limb. Click the thumbnail for the animation to start. These images have been made using a Meade 140 2x barlow on extention rings and I believe it does a lot better than the Celestron Shorty plus.
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