Spotting Mars

[holmec]

This morning (just before dawn) I looked up in the sky with the naked eye and I could make out:<br /><br />Venus, cresent Moon, Saturn (though did not know it was Saturn at the time), a star, and then in the same line way over to the west was a red dot which I believe to have been Mars.<br /><br />I sort of confirmed my sighting with the software Celestia.<br /><br />Can anyone confirm you can see Mars now with the naked eye? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#0000ff"><em>"SCE to AUX" - John Aaron, curiosity pays off</em></font></p> </div>

 

[adrenalynn]

Mars is indeed extremely bright from just after nightfall until morning, transiting (over here on the left coast) at about 3am-ish as memory serves.<br /><br />Venus was amazingly bright right next to the moon between 2:30am and 4am PST. I did take a couple pictures, but I haven't looked at 'em yet. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>.</p><p><font size="3">bipartisan</font>  (<span style="color:blue" class="pointer"><span class="pron"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="2">bī-pär'tĭ-zən, -sən</font></span></span>) [Adj.]  Maintaining the ability to blame republications when your stimulus plan proves to be a devastating failure.</p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#ff0000">IMPE</font><font color="#c0c0c0">ACH</font> <font color="#0000ff"><font color="#c0c0c0">O</font>BAMA</font>!</font></strong></p> </div>

 

[usn_skwerl]

I got Venus, the moon and the ISS on video this morning...the Mk.1 shaky-cam. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[holmec]

Cool<br /><br />got a link to it? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#0000ff"><em>"SCE to AUX" - John Aaron, curiosity pays off</em></font></p> </div>

 

[3488]

Hi holmec, you sure did. Close to the star Mebsuta / Epsilon Geminorum.<br /><br />Mars is very bright, magnitude -0.73 now. <br /><br />By Friday, it will have brightened to magnitude -0.81.<br /><br />From my location, Mars transits @ 3:48 AM tomorrow morning.<br /><br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

The brightest things in the sky today are<br /><br />The Sun<br />The Moon<br />Venus (Mag -4.3)<br />Sirius (Mag -1.4)<br />Mars (Mag -0.8)<br /><br />If you look up in the eastern sky after 11PM but before 4AM, the brightest things you can see tonight are Sirius (below Orion), and Mars, which is MUCH higher in the sky. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[usn_skwerl]

I'll be uploading it soon. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[usn_skwerl]

holmec, video is in the 120 post-launch thread in M&L <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[holmec]

here's the video usn_skwerl was refering to:<br /><br />video <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#0000ff"><em>"SCE to AUX" - John Aaron, curiosity pays off</em></font></p> </div>

 

[adrenalynn]

Awesome! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>.</p><p><font size="3">bipartisan</font>  (<span style="color:blue" class="pointer"><span class="pron"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="2">bī-pär'tĭ-zən, -sən</font></span></span>) [Adj.]  Maintaining the ability to blame republications when your stimulus plan proves to be a devastating failure.</p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#ff0000">IMPE</font><font color="#c0c0c0">ACH</font> <font color="#0000ff"><font color="#c0c0c0">O</font>BAMA</font>!</font></strong></p> </div>