Some images of Mars showed the storm as a relatively
small, bright area. Other images show larger dust clouds.
I'm sure the winds keep changing up there, so it may not
look the same from night to night.
Maybe the seeing will be better tonight or in a few days.
Rich
>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/10/28/mars.storm/index.html?section=cnn_latest
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>Took a peak at Mars this morning 4:00 AM with my C-102F APO. I've seen a
>large rectangular shape dark shading on the surface but no dust storm!
>No snow caps can be seen either!
>Switched to my 8" SCT, it was worst, seems the SCT don't have the
>contrast as the APO have. Shadings on Mars was very light, barely
>noticeable.
>Any one seen the dust storm?
>Should I use a filter and what kind?
>Julius
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Received on Sun Oct 30 11:41:12 2005