August 21, 2003
Mars Attacks
This is my contribution to the Astronomical Society of JC land. As you can see with the last one, I tried to use the 'I cant hold the camera still' setting. Looks kinda nifty. For all you who have no idea what is going on in our sky at the minute, take a moment and look up. You will see a large bright orange (dot) planet looking back at you. Mars is in the process of making its closest orbit to earth in recorded history. Infact I think it is the closest it has been to earth for the last 60,000 years. Mr Beki, I think you can assist with better quality stats.
Head over to www.asv.gov.au to see session details. They start tomorrow and run until the end of the month. I'll be at Braeside park Friday & Saturday night as well as Richmond next week Tuesday & Wednesday. Only $2 entry fee to help us with the construction of our new 30" telescope.
Posted by: chris at August 21, 2003 11:47 AMThanks Mr Beki for allowing we to see this once in a lifetime event through your amazing telescope. J, I think these sessions are at Braeside this Friday & Saturday. Mr Beki will be attending.
Posted by: [jc] at August 21, 2003 11:31 AMSo Mr Beki are you going to the viewings around Melbourne next week. John I think there is one early next week in Cheltenham somewhere (I heard it on the radio) - $2 donation to astrological society for the building of a new humungous telescope in NSW...
DO u have details Chris ?
Posted by: J at August 21, 2003 11:00 AMJohn, maybe the biological society of Australia will be interested in those photos as they kinda look like worms :) - for some real Mars photos have a look at http://www.asv.org.au. It was a good effort anyway and I think you did managed to see the souther polar caps and some surface markings last night, which is always a bonus for something that's half the size of the Earth and some 55.7 million Km away... I'll stop talking now.
Posted by: chris at August 21, 2003 10:08 AM