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¤······Subject: Mars on 30 January 2012

Received: Thu 02 Feb 2012 12:57 JST

Dear Masatsugu,

Thanks for your comments on the 28 January images!  Also, thanks for the reference to your very interesting article from 1999 about the phenomenon of the bluish appearance of Syrtis Major when it is near the terminator.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120130/WFl30Jan12.jpg

I have attached a set of images from the morning of 30 January.  I spent some time refining the wavelet enhancement I have been using on Mars and I seemed to be getting slightly better results than before.  I used the new enhancement on the 30 January image.  I also reprocessed the 28 January image and I am sending you the new revision of that image set.

(revised) http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120128/WFl28Jan12.jpg

Compared to the 28 January image, Syrtis Major has rotated an additional 16 degrees from the terminator in the 30 January image. Syrtis Major is still showing the bluish tint that was noticeable in the earlier image.    

  Best Regards,

Bill FLANAGAN (Houston, TX)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 2012/01/31-Kumamori

Received: Wed 01 Jan 2012 21:17 JST

Masatsugu MINAMI-sama: The seeing remains unstable due to the present cold wave which I hope pass earlier

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120131/Km31Jan12.jpg

Best wishes,

Teruaki KUMAMORI (Sakai-Osaka, JAPAN)

 

 

¤······Subject: Mars image - Jan. 30

Received: Wed 01 Feb 2012 14:35 JST

Gentlemen,

Attached is a set of image that was captured under better than average seeing.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120130/PGc30Jan12.jpg

Regards,

Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, Connecticut, the US

 

¤······Subject: Re: Mars 27 January

Received: Wed 01 Feb 2012 07 JST

16-inch a-go-go, ready to go.  See the Moon?   The puny Mars will be coming up soon.

 Jeff BEISH (We The People)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 27 January

Received: Wed 01 Feb 2012 06:53:39 JST

Hi All,

       I have attached RGB Mars images from 27 January. Interesting rifts developing in the NPC.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120127/DPk27Jan12.jpg

Best,

Don PARKER (Coral Gables, FL)

 

¤······Subject: Mars images (January 27th, 2012.)

Received: Wed 01 Feb 2012 05:55 JST

Hi all,

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120127/DPc27Jan12.jpg

Poor seeing on this morning but I was determined to catch Syrtis Major on this rotation. Bright Elysium orographics. There is also an interesting bright patch projecting from the NPC on the bright limb.

http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1112/2012_01_27rgb.jpg

Best Wishes

Damian PEACH (Selsey, the UK)

 

¤······Subject: Mars - January 27th, 08:31ut

Received: Wed 01 Feb 2012 05:19 JST

Hi Mr Minami, Here is my most recent session from the 27th of January, Clear Skies.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120127/EMr27Jan12.jpg

Efrain MORALES RIVERA (Aguadilla, PUERTO RICO)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 2012/01/30-Kumamori

Received: Tue 31 Jan 2012 21:06 JST

Masatsugu MINAMI-sama; The sky is fair but clouds float and the seeing is unstable. A dark segment adjacent to the npc was shot (the same one taken by Don PARKER on 18 Jan (λ=059°Ls) at ω=051°W)

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120130/Km30Jan12.jpg

  Teruaki KUMAMORI (Sakai-Osaka, JAPAN)

 

¤······Subject: Animated sequence - Jan 16th 2012

Received: Tue 31 Jan 2012 19:35 JST

Hi all,

Here's a preview of an unfinished animation built from images captured on Jan 16th. There's a fair bit of work left to do to get everything up to standard and the frame set is currently L-R reversed (i.e. east is to the right). However, it does show the huge amount of material flow around this rather lovely loop prominence. The capture frequency is high here with each frame being recorded for 9s in a 13s repeating window - i.e. a gap of 4s between captures. The animation here contains 25 frames. There are 100 in total but some drift in the pointing of the scope may truncate the final count...

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/solar/2012/_SF70ds01.gif

Best regards,

Pete LAWRENCE (Selsey, the UK)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 29 Jan

Received: Tue 31 Jan 2012 08:02 JST

Hi; Conditions were about average when this was taken this MIDNIGHT. there was a lot of unstable but I PICK OUT fair frames:

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120129/SGh29Jan12.jpg

Regards

Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Tehran, IRAN)

 

¤······Subject: Mars Ak30Jan12

Received: Tue 31 Jan 2012 03:16 JST

MINAMI-sama: These are two sets of Mars images from 30 January. There seems to exist a rift inside the npc.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120130/Ak30Jan12.jpg

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

 

¤······Subject: A Drawing of Mars 29Jan2012 2010 GMT

Received: Tue 31 Jan 2012 00:06 JST

 

Dear Dr. Minami, I am attaching my latest drawing of Mars. Transparency was good before dawn, gorgeous summer Milky Way on the eastern mountain range, but a cold wind was wailing outside my small dome.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120129/Kn29Jan12.jpg

 

Good Seeing with Excellent Scopes!

 

Reiichi KONNAÏ (Fukushima, JAPAN)

 

¤······Subject: Re: Re: To Mars Observers (CMO #393 uploaded)

Received: Mon 01/30/2012 19:15 JST

I found two more unprocessed Mars images from January 19, 2012.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120119/FWl19Jan12.jpg

Taken with the DBK21AU618.as.

Freddy WILLEMS (Waipahu, HI, the US)

 

¤······Subject: Mars: January 29, 2012

Received: Mon 30 Jan 2012 15:30 JST

Hi -

   I have attached my latest image of Mars January 29, 2012 to be posted.

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120129/FMl29Jan12.jpg

   Thanks,

 Frank J MELILLO (Holtville, NY)

 

¤······Subject: Mars this morning

Received: Mon 30 Jan 2012 03:10 JST

   Well, when you have not imaged in a while expect things to go wrong and, in my case, they did. Luckily I was able to manage One AVI! I started out observing doubles in Orion. Using a Collins I3 eyepiece and a Hydrogen Alpha filter I observed the Horsehead Nebula for the first time (from Downtown Charleston)! Thanks to Bob Schilling for telling me how to do this!! Just a dark blob, no detail.  I then left the observatory for a much needed bowl of ice cream and waited for Mars. Just as I got started (and made the one AVI) the motor on my mount stalled!! I had run the 12V battery down while inside waiting on Mars! Then, when I tried to shut the dome, the shutter was stuck and it took a while pushing and pulling 20-30 ft above the ground on a 2 ft ledge at 2:00AM to get things straightened out. Here is my one image FYI.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120129/JPh29Jan12.jpg

best,

Jim PHILLIPS (Charleston, SC)

 

¤······Subject: solar proms 27th Jan 2012

Received: Mon 30 Jan 2012 01:56 JST

Hi guys here are a couple of decent size proms from the 27th Jan, seeing was only fair

  

90mm  Coro SS on AP130 EDT + 2x powermate and Flea 3

Best wishes

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK)

www.david-tyler.com

 

¤······Subject: Mars Ak28Jan12

Received: Sun 29 Jan 2012 23:27 JST

MINAMI-sama: These are from 28 January GMT. KUMAMORI is of the opinion that the reason why the morning limb is doubled must not be because of the optical system, but due to a defect of the camera I use.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120128/Ak28Jan12.jpg

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

 

¤······Subject: Re: How are you?

Received: Sun 29 Jan 2012 19:34 JST

Attached: Erard_PSS2000.pdf

Dear Masatsugu,

All is fine here, but I have not been able to get Mars images for several reasons... the most important being that because of the unfavourable orientation of my current observing place (a north/west terrace) I can't observe planets before they reach meridian already. Add bad weather and need to sleep and the occasions to observe can go to zero ! Two weeks ago, I did have a nice morning with good seeing on Mars. But fog fell down just 40 seconds after the start of my very first video :(

Things are going to change very soon however, as from 11th february I would have moved to a new home with a southern garden, and i will be able to catch the planets more easily.

The 250 gregory has also been corrected from a residual astigmatism last week (the secondary barrel was too tight) and delivered two nights ago the finest images of Jupiter I have seen with this telescope (the weather was too windy to take images though) so I'm hoping very good images on Mars with it.

Recently I have tried to work on the article you was hoping about the "strange line" north of Tharsis ; however I'm still finding the topic not relevant - the relevant topic being the Alba clouds instead.

I have had another idea no later than this morning - I was reviewing a study by Stéphane Erard (from Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale) about the Pic-du-Midi Mars observations in 1995 (please find it attached to this e-mail - don't know if you have it). The article talks (shortly) about the migration of water vapor from the north pole and gives some physical data -read pages 5-6 and 17-18). Then I have thought about two phenomena we observed in 2010 and this year: the absence of clouds at high northern latitude during spring (remember B images) as well as (speculative here) the reddish color at the edge of NPC. Maybe there is an interesting note to write here?

Hoping that the snow will have a rest soon for you!

Best wishes,

Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE)

 

¤······Subject: Mars RGB set

Received: Sun 29 Jan 2012 17:19 JST

Hello everyone,

The attached image was captured in mediocre seeing.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120128/SBd28Jan12.jpg

Regards,

Stefan BUDA (Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)

 

¤······Subject: Mars Images - Jan. 28

Received: Sun 29 Jan 2012 10:28 JST

Gentlemen,

This is the first and probably the best set of a two hour period.  Seeing was below average.  At times during this session Mars appeared to be just a featureless blob.  I have not had a chance to process the other images from this session yet, but I don't expect much.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120128/PGc28Jan12.jpg

Regards,

Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT)

 

¤······Subject: Mars on 28 January 2012

Received: Sun 29 Jan 2012 08:06 JST

Dear Masatsugu,

Attached is a set of images of Mars from this morning, 28-January.  Seeing was average but deteriorated quickly as Mars approached the meridian so I was only able to get one good set. The color composite shows a bluish tint near the terminator over Syrtis Major.

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120128/WFl28Jan12.jpg

Best Regards,

Bill FLANAGAN (Houston, TX)

 

¤······Subject: Mars Ak27Jan12

Received: Sun 29 Jan 2012 00:27 JST

MINAMI-sama: These are two sets of Mars images from 27 January:

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120127/Ak27Jan12.jpg

Best

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 2012/01/27-Kumamori

Received: Sat 28 Jan 2012 11:24 JST

Masatsugu MINAMI –sama. It became thinly cloud and seeing became poor. Solis L is dark.

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120127/Km27Jan12.jpg

Teruaki KUMAMORI (Sakai-Osaka, JAPAN)

 

¤······Subject: Mars is creeping up

Received: Sat 28 Jan 2012 07:55: JST

Attached Snort_Moonshine.jpg

 

Well, when I can’t shot Mars I can always shoot Moonshine.  It’s a little stronger than saké.

Jeff BEISH (We The People)

 

¤······Subject: Transit of Venus project Newsletter #9

Received: Sat 28 Jan 2012 02:01 JST

Dear all,

Tonight the Eros Parallax Project starts: a unique project running for a whole week, aimed at finding the distance to asteroid Eros by observations of amateurs from all over the world.

For the first time since 1975 Eros passes along Earth at a very short distance ? ideal to do some parallax measurements. If pictures of Eros are taken at the same moment from two widely separated places, there will be a slight difference in placement of the asteroid with respect to the background stars. If this difference can be found, as well as the distance between the observers, simple trigonometry yields the distance to Eros.

To participate, you only need to take a picture of Eros, measure the position of Eros on your photograph with respect to the background stars and submit your values. That's all. You can take the pictures through a telescope, but It can also be done with equipment as simple as a DSLR camera with a telephoto lens on a tripod. From all submitted measurements the distance of Eros is subsequently calculated. Or you can do this yourself using the spreadsheet designed by Udo Backhaus.

You will find all instructions and source files on our special project website:

http://transitofvenus.nl/wp/getting-involved/eros-and-the-solar-parallax

/ You can follow the progress of the project on our blog (www.transitofvenus.nl), Twitter (@tov2012) or Facebook

 (http://www.facebook.com/groups/108400462513165/).

If you have interesting pictures or experiences that you would like to share with us, just send an email to s.vanroode@transitofvenus.nl. Your pictures of Eros can be sent separately to our depository of images

 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/transitofvenus2012/ ). See the project website for instructions.

So, from January 28 to February 3 get out with your telescope or camera, shoot Eros and join the Eros Parallax Project! Your next chance will be in 2056...

Clear skies!

Steven VAN ROODE (the Netherland)

www.transitofvenus.nl

info@transitofvenus.nl

 

¤······Subject: Mars: 24/01/2012

Received: Fri 27 Jan 2012 22:01 JST

Greetings all. Attached is a drawing of Mars I made on the morning of the 24th January 2012. Seeing was variable and I could go much beyond x250.  Still, with a δ=11.0", there was enough details to see.

Syrtis Major was well on the disk- the far south it seemed that the Hellas basin was rather bright, and may well have contained a number of bright clouds. Similarly the Eridania/Ausonia region was also bright. The Syrtis Major region was dark and very prominent. Mare Tyrrhenum was also dark and well defined. Bright clouds present in Aeria and Arabia? On the proc side the end of Mare Cimmerium was present. Those wonderful delicate extensions of Cimmerium which extend down into Aeolis were also present, and contained a number of bright regions. The dark streak north of Cimmerium I took top be Aetheria in which case Elysium seemed to be rather vague and ill defined.

The dark Boreosyrtis well defined, looked like there might have been a bright region in Dioscuria encroaching into Boreosyrtis. NPC bright, well defined and noticeably smaller than previously observed.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120124/PAb24Jan12.jpg

Clouds came up at 0206UT, and I was forced to stop observing. Pity.

All best wishes,

Paul ABEL (Leicester, the UK)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 2012/01/26-Kumamori

Received: Fri 27 Jan 2012 21:47 JST

 Masatsugu MINAMI –sama, Cold and dismal weather continued. However yesterday, though it snowed lightly, the sky became clear at night.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120126/Km26Jan12.jpg

It appeared the npc was less bright.

Best wishes,

Teruaki KUMAMORI (Sakai-Osaka, JAPAN)

 

¤······Subject: Re: Mars images - January 19, 2012.

Received: Fri 27 Jan 2012 16:37 JST

Hi Masatsugu,

You arranged everything very nice!

Really nice website and presentations.

I will keep sending my Mars observations regularly and hope for good weather and seeing.

Thanks again.

Freddy WILLEMS (Waipahu, HI, the US)

 

¤······Subject: Mars image - Jan. 22, 2012

Received: Fri 27 Jan 2012 13:41 JST

Gentlemen,

Attached is a set of images from January 22.  Seeing was poor.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120122/PGc22Jan12.jpg

Regards,

Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT, the US)

 

¤······Subject: Mars - January 22nd, 2012

Received: Fri 27 Jan 2012 02:59 JST

Hi Mr. Minami, My latest session from the 22nd of January, Clear Skies.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120122/EMr22Jan12.jpg

Efrain MORALES RIVERA (Aguadilla, PUERTO RICO)

 

¤······Subject: solar images 16th Jan

Received: Thu 26 Jan 2012 22:38 JST

Hi Guys following on from the single frame image of the slinky Prom from this date, here is a 4 frame mosaic of it, and the surrounding area, plus a short 9 minute time lapse animation.

  

Best wishes

 Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK)

www.david-tyler.com

 

¤······Subject: Re: Re: To Mars Observers (CMO #393 uploaded)

Received: Thu 26 Jan 2012 17:33:05 JST

Seeing dropped back to average, we have VOG in the air here in Hawaii. Pulled out what I could to get some detail in the images.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120123/FWl23Jan12.jpg

Freddy WILLEMS (Waipahu, HI, the US)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 24 January

Received: Thu 26 Jan 2012 14:04:59 JST

Hi All,

       I have attached RGB Mars images from 24 January. Small clouds over Moab and Arabia and a light haze over Chryse visible. Rifts appear along the NPC edge.

Mediocre seeing and gusty winds did not allow ultraviolet imaging.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120124/DPk24Jan12.jpg

Best,

Don PARKER (Coral Gables, FL)

 

¤······Subject: Mars images

Received: Thu 26 Jan 2012 12:36 JST

I will upload my Mars images from this apparition. The date's are clearly marked on the images. I hope you can accept the images as they are, I will arrange them more carefully next time.

I also use different camera's so that's why some images look different than the other. I use the DMK618 with RGB Astrodon Filters and DBK618 color camera.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120119/FWl19Jan12.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120114/FWl14Jan12.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120108/FWl08Jan12.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120107/FWl07Jan12.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120105/FWl05Jan12.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120101/FWl01Jan12.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/110912/FWl12Sept11.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/110907/FWl07Sept11.jpg

Freddy WILLEMS (Waipahu, HI, the US)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 23 Jan

Received: Wed 25 Jan 2012 07:40 JST

 Hi

 On 23 January I took one image of Mars; always condition was bad when I observe. PLS see them.

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120123/SGh23Jan12.jpg

B.W

Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Tehran, IRAN)

 

¤······Subject: solar images 14thJan 2012

Received: Wed 25 Jan 2012 07:21 JST

Hi Guys here are a few images from the 14th, a couple of nice proms and a 4 frame mosaic taking in the two active regions 1395 and 1398, with their beautifully intricate patterns of hydrogen phenomena. 

   

 

best wishes

 Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK)

www.david-tyler.com

 

¤······Subject: Mars Ak24Jan12

Received: Wed 25 Jan 2012 06:59 JST

MINAMI-sama. These are the Mars images from 24 January. I even feel cool with a T-shirt on the rooftop.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120124/Ak24Jan12.jpg

Best wishes

 Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

 

¤······Subject: Mars images (January 17th, 2012.)

Received: Wed 25 Jan 2012 04:36 JST

Hi all,

Here are some images from Jan 17th in fair conditions. Sinus Meridiani and Mare Acidalium are prominent on the disk.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120117/DPc17Jan12.jpg

Some bright haze over Argyre, and patchy cloud over Arabia/Moab. Bright limb cloud extending into Chryse.

http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1112/2012_01_17rgb.jpg

http://www.damianpeach.com/mars1112/2012_01_17redblu.jpg

Best Wishes

Damian PEACH (Selsey, the UK)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 2012 Jan 19

Received: Tue 24 Jan 2012 19:45 JST

Dear all,

Attaching an image from January 19.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120119/JWr19Jan12.jpg

Best regards,

Johan WARELL (Skivarp, SWEDEN)

 

¤······Subject: mars 22 jan

Received: Tue 24 Jan 2012 04:17 JST

Hi, Under poor seeing & average atmosphere I took one image of Mars.  PLS see it.

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120122/SGh22Jan12.jpg

B.W

Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Tehran, IRAN)

 

¤······Subject: Jupiter 16-Jan-2012

Received: Mon 23 Jan 2012 23:02 JST

Hi Guys

This was the last of four nights of good seeing.  Oval BA put in an appearance, looking pale, but it still has its inner circle.

 

Best wishes   

Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK)

www.david-tyler.com

 

¤······Subject: Re: Mars 18 January

Received: Mon 23 Jan 2012 03:57 JST

Really sorry to hear this. He was a great guy in the few interactions we had over the years.

Rik HILL (LPL, AZ)

 

¤······Subject: Ashen Light article and another one!

Received: Mon 23 Jan 2012 02:15 JST

Dear Bill et al.,

Many thanks for this very nice and very thoughtful piece from Tom Dobbins. I am glad he mentions my paper on the AL and I attach it for all to read. This was an exhaustive analysis of the notebooks of H. McEwen (from the 1890s-1948) and P. Moore (1930s-1990s), but not quite - contrary to what Tom writes - an analysis of every AL sighting from the BAA's records. It will however cover most of the work of the Mercury and Venus Section up to the late 20th Century. Papers exhaustively reviewing BAA Venus work during 1991-1998 and 1999-2006 are also available from our Section website linked from http://www.britastro.org  These latter also review a great deal of AL work.

I think my experience is like Klaus's. I have only one rather poor personal sighting, yet I do believe in the phenomenon. The 1960s sighting by David Cruickshank I have seen in print previously and it is one of the more compelling records. Incidentally I have all those old numbers of the ALPO Journal at home - a complete run - and their perusal is fascinating reading and maybe someone like Klaus would have time to summarise the ALPO work on the AL from 1947 onwards...... In passing, what the JALPO needs is a full index!

Walter Haas has one important comment here from his personal work, as published in my Venus paper for the ten 1991-1998 elongations. When the crescent is seen in full daylight (when of course the AL cannot be seen at all) the interior part can look mottled. However Walter found the surrounding sky similarly mottled so on those occasions the interior mottling might not have been real. In addition to the Cheveau sighting (published in the Bull. Soc. Astron. France), Firsoff also had indications of mottling in the 1950s and 60s, as do other modern observers.

My later BAA analyses show that on the few occasions of the AL being reported visually there were no simultaneous contradictory CCD records. There are simply not enough CCD observations after sunset and not enough visual records, period.

I do hope the transit will stimulate some more visual and imaging work, and perhaps this remaining 'Loch Ness Monster' can be captured once and for all. (By the way, I am probably one of the few on this list to have been to Loch Ness and camped overnight on its banks: and I didn't see the monster either!)

With good wishes to all

Richard McKIM (Peterborough, the UK)

 

¤······Subject: RE: Jupiter 15th Jan 2012

Received: Mon 23 Jan 2012 00:59 JST

Looks like the GRS itself just is a pale yellowish remnant of itself. Fading fast?

Jim PHILLIPS (Charleston, SC)

 

¤······Subject: Jupiter 15th Jan 2012

Received: Mon 23 Jan 2012 00:38 JST

Hi Guys this one is from the 3rd of 4 consecutive evenings of decent seeing at 45deg alt. The NEB is just showing a remnant of its fuller width, the barges have now been cast adrift. 

 

Best wishes

 Dave TYLER (Bucks, the UK)

www.david-tyler.com

 

¤······Subject: mars 21 jan

Received: Sun 22 Jan 2012 22:51 JST

Hi

 Poor seeing& unstable atmosphere I took one image of Mars.  PLS see it.

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120121/SGh21Jan12.jpg

 B.W

Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Tehran, IRAN)

 

¤······Subject: Re: Mars 18 January

Received: Sun 22 Jan 2012 22:40:23 JST

Don, one of our old buddies passed on;

 John Sanford: http://cs.astronomy.com/asycs/blogs/daves-universe/archive/2012/01/20/john-sanford-1939-2011.aspx

The herd is thinning.  Nice photo of Mercury. 

 Jeff BEISH (We The People)

 

¤······Subject: Re: FW: Ashen Light article

Received: Sun 22 Jan 2012 19:44 JST

Thanks Bill,

Very good article. I was not aware of the risk to get a glow from the diffraction spikes of the secondary!

I am hoping to make a CCD search for the Ashen light next spring, in the three colors RGB bands as well as very near IR (from 700 nm). If the phenomenon is real, and if it can be observed at the eyepiece, it must be caught on camera.

About technical advices, it would have been good to recall the availability of atmospheric diffraction correctors on the market?  I think it would be of a very good help for this kind of observation. I got one now and I will of course use it.

Best wishes,

Christophe PELLIER (Nantes, FRANCE)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 18 January

Received: Sun 22 Jan 2012 16:19 JST

Hi All,

       I have attached RGB Mars images from 18 January.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120118/DPk18Jan12.jpg

Best,

 Don PARKER (Coral Gables, FL)

 

¤······Subject: Mars this morning

Received: Sun 22 Jan 2012 14:18 JST

Hi everyone,

The seeing this morning was mediocre at best.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120121/SBd21Jan12.jpg

There appears to be some detail visible on the edge of the NPC that I don't know what to make of. It does not seem to match what my planetarium programs are showing in that spot.

   Regards,

Stefan BUDA (Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)

 

¤······Subject: Re: FW: Ashen Light article

Received: Sun 22 Jan 2012 11:58 JST

Thanks Bill,

Very interesting article. Congrats to Tom Dobbins. I was heavily involved in looking for the Ashen light when first getting into astronomy as a teenager with the A.L.P.O. Never saw anything convincing however. I also had the pleasure of meeting Dale Cruikshank at that time and again many decades later during the 1991 total eclipse of the sun and ALPO convention in La Paz, Baja California. He tried to convince ALPO members to take advantage of narrow band pass filters and the then emerging digital imaging technology to look for evidence of the Ashen light by means other than visually. That seems even more appropriate today with the much more advanced imaging means available to amateurs and possibly a PRO/Am effort.

Klaus BRASCH (Flagstaff, AZ)

 

¤······Subject: FW: Ashen Light article

Received: Sun 22 Jan 2012 04:21 JST

An article not yet in press (but soon to be) from my long-term collaborator Tom Dobbins.

   Another project for us to undertake as we prepare for Venus's transit across the Sun.

   See attached PDF. Not the final version in print, but very close...

Click here for ETSS layout3.pdf

  Bill SHEEHAN (Willmar MN)

 

¤······Subject: Mars image - Nov. 2

Received: Sun 22 Jan 2012 01:48 JST

Gentlemen,

Attached is a set of images from November 2, 2011 that I finally had a chance to process.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/111102/PGc02Nov11.jpg

Regards,

Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT)

 

¤······Subject: Mars Ak19Jan12

Received: Sat 21 Jan 2012 18:30 JST

Dear Masatsugu

 It seems the rainy season ended in Cebu: 

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120119/Ak19Jan12.jpg

Best Wishes,

Tomio AKUTSU (Cebu, the PHILIPPINES)

 

¤······Subject: Mars image - Jan. 16

Received: Sat 21 Jan 2012 14:29 JST

Gentlemen,

Attached is a set of Mars images from January 16. Seeing conditions were about average.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120116/PGc16Jan12.jpg

Regards,

Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT, the USA)

 

¤······Subject: Sixty years of Mars observations

Received: Sat 21 Jan 2012 09:35 JST

 To Donald C. Parker, Tom Dobbins, Masatsugu MINAMI

Dear Don,  

  Thanks for a superb essay of your experiences as a Mars observer (and thanks Masatsugu for pursuing and publishing this important essay).  What a rich life you’ve led!!---as Falstaff tells Prince Hal in Henry IV, part II, act 3, scene 2.

    I learned a great deal, and was deeply inspired.  (I wished I had known Chick better; I corresponded with him a bit, but was just getting underway with that when he suddenly and unexpectedly died.  Earlier, when I was at Lowell in 1982, when he was there, I desperately wanting to interact with him. Bill Hoyt (my host) however said he wasn’t a real astronomer, just a professional observer (!)  And I interpreted his gentle nature—and shyness—as arrogance. Pride and prejudice.  The reality was that I was too timid to approach him. If I’d had ten minutes with him then I would cherish it as one would the Hope Diamond.)

   Well done, Don.  You have furnished a document for the ages.

   Hoping we meet up, sooner rather than later.

   Best wishes,

   Bill SHEEHAN (Willmar, MN) 

 

¤······Subject: Mars, Jan 19

Received: Fri 20 Jan 2012 16:16 JST

 Hi all, here is a Mars image from this morning, under not-great (but not-awful) seeing. This is an IR image only, taken with an Astronomik pro-planet 742 filter.

 50fps for 2 minutes, image resampled during processing.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120119/AWs19Jan12.jpg

 regards,

 Anthony WESLEY (Murrumbateman, NSW, AUSTRALIA)

 

¤······Subject: Mars last 17th

Received: Thu 19 Jan 2012 15:43 JST

> Good morning,

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120117/SMk17Jan12.jpg

> Here is the report for the 17th morning Mars observation.

> Have good receipt of the present mail.

> Faithfully

Stanislas MAKSYMOWICZ (Ecquevilly, FRANCE)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 2012-01-18

Received: Thu 19 Jan 2012 10:03 JST

Hi, here are my Mars images from 18th January 2012. Now mad weather is coming, so I cant capture more images the next days...

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120118/SKw18Jan12.png

Cheers

 Silvia KOWOLLIK (Ludwigsburg, GERMANY)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 11 January

Received: Thu 19 Jan 2012 08:45 JST

Hi All, I have attached RGB and UV Mars images from 11 January. Tharsis clouds remain very prominent.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120111/DPk11Jan12.jpg

Best,

 Don PARKER (Coral Gables, FL)

 

¤······Subject: RE: Re: from bill sheehan: visit to Juvisy

Received: Thu 19 Jan 2012 01:55 JST

Dear Francis,

   This is excellent!  It would be great to see Juvisy again since the renovation of the telescope was completed, and I know that our mutual good friend Masatsugu would be most pleased if we could send him some observations of Mars made with this famous instrument.  It would be most evocative to see the Red One—even if not well placed as oppositions go—through the instrument that one of the most famous Martians used so long ago.

   At this point, I’m juggling different priorities—my wife will be along, and her interests are more moderately astronomical than my own.  It looks like one possibility would be to go to Juvisy on the evening of Tuesday the 21st from the Paris ObservatoryJames Lequeux is interest in seeing the refurbished telescope with us—as I plan to spend that day at the Observatory (among other things, Laurence Bobis will be initiating the new Cassini exhibit in the Main Gallery).  However, if the skies are cloudy, we may want to choose a different date.  One way or another we will get this done as I would greatly appreciate the chance to see the Observatory under more optimal conditions than in 2009.

   It is very kind of you to offer for me to offer the hospitality of staying overnight at your residence, if this becomes necessary, though I hesitate to impose.

   I will be back in touch again soon.

   Best,

Bill SHEEHAN (Willmar, MN)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 2012/01/17-Kumamori

Received: Wed 18 Jan 2012 18:30 JST

Masatsugu MINAMI-sama, As these days the weather has been unstable, it is hard for me to get up timely. This is just one from 17 January.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120117/Km17Jan12.jpg

With best wishes:

Teruaki KUMAMORI (Sakai-Osaka, JAPAN)

 

¤······Subject: Mars on 14 and 15 January 2012

Received; Wed 18 Jan 2012 02:47 JST

Dear Masatsugu,

Attached are two set of images of Mars from the mornings of 14-January and 15-January.  Clouds are showing over Tharsis and Arcadia.  There is also an interesting V shaped feature in the North Polar region near 180W and +70N that appears to have some extension to it.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120115/WFl15Jan12.jpg

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120114/WFl14Jan12.jpg

Best Regards,

Bill FLANAGAN (Houston, TX)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 2012-01-16

Received; Wed 18 Jan 2012 01:22 JST

Hi, here my images from 16th January 2012.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120116/SKw16Jan12.png

I am really astonished, how much one can see on the small Martian disc.

Cheers

Silvia KOWOLLIK (Ludwigsburg, GERMANY)

 

¤······Subject: mars 16 jan.

Received; Wed 18 Jan 2012 01:19 JST

Hi, On 16 January seeing was poor & average atmosphere PLS see it.

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120116/SGh16Jan12.jpg

 B.W

Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Tehran, IRAN)

 

¤······Subject: Drawings of Mars

Received: Tue 17 Jan 2012 23:57 JST

Dear Dr. Minami, Attached here are my latest drawings of Mars. As the apparent diameter of the planet exceeded 10I have changed the size of the drawing from 3cm up to 4cm across.  It's almost midnight and the sky's clear now, Mars is already low in the eastern sky. But I am wondering if I should go observing or not; I've been slightly feverish since this morning, may be just a cold, not flu. Please take care not to catch a cold too.

   

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120113/Kn13Jan12.jpg

Good Seeing with Excellent Scopes!

     Reiichi KONNAÏ (Fukushima, JAPAN

 

¤······Subject: Mars 2012/01/17

Received: Tue 17 Jan 2012 18:19 JST

Hello,

Here is Mars on 2012/01/17.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120117/JPp17Jan12.jpg

The seeing was average.

The transparency was average.

T = -4.8°C

Regards

Jean-Jacques POUPEAU (Essonne, FRANCE)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 2012 Jan 15

Received: Tue 17 Jan 2012 15:13 JST

Dear all,

Attaching my latest Mars image from January 15, with a distinct cap, limb haze and a bright Chryse and Argyre. A wonderful view in the scope at x480!

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120115/JWr15Jan12.jpg

Best regards,

Johan WARELL (Skivarp, SWEDEN)

 

¤······Subject: Mars: January 16, 2012

Received: Tue 17 Jan 2012 03:41 JST

Hi -

  I have attached my latest image of Mars January 16, 2012 to be posted. It seems to show some irregularities along the edge of the NPC especially in red light.

 http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120116/FMl16Jan12.jpg

  Thanks,

   Frank J MELILLO (Holtsville, NY)

 

¤······Subject: mars 15 jan

Received: Mon 16 Jan 2012 21:40 JST

Dear Masatsugu

Thank you for your mail.

But sorry to say still I am confused so that by fixing the Date and time ( GMT): here in my country there is 3.30 Hour different time with GMT.

I will send new image to you by new set up, I hope I could get your comment accordingly, is that Ok?

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120115/SGh15Jan12.jpg

thanks

Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Tehran, IRAN)

 

¤······Subject: Re: My first Mars image for the year

Received: Mon 16 Jan 2012 18:03 JST

Hello Stefan,

That is a very good set of images.  I have had a look at Mars visually but I have not turned the camera on yet!

Regards

Barry ADCOCK (Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)  

 

¤······Subject: My first Mars image for the year

Received: Mon 16 Jan 2012 09:52 JST

Hi everyone,

The seeing was better than what I'm used to in the mornings and also had some cloud trouble but one of the RGB sets was good enough for processing.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120115/SBd15Jan12.jpg

It's been a long time since I've seen blue haze over Syrtis Major.

Regards,

Stefan BUDA (Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)

 

¤······Subject: Re: from bill sheehan: visit to Juvisy

Received: Mon 16 Jan 2012 07:56 JST

Dear Dr Sheehan,

    I will be happy to show you the refurbished telescope of Camille Flammarion's observatory in Juvisy. I hope everything will be in order so that you can also observe Mars with the telescope.

    At that time, it may be convenient for you to stay in our house since it is only 7 kilometers from Juvisy and 20 minutes by train from the center of Paris. If you are interested, I can also show you some places in the center of Paris which are related to astronomy, especially the observatory of Société Astronomique de France in Sorbonne University, since I am also taking care of it.

    On the other hand, I will be quite busy on Monday February 20.

   With best wishes.

P.S. For me, it is OK that you call me Francis.

  Francis OGER (near Paris, FRANCE)

 

¤······Subject: Mars image - Jan. 15

Received: Mon 16 Jan 2012 03:07 JST

Gentlemen,

Attached is a set of images from this morning.  Seeing was less than average, the temperature was -12°C with some wind.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120115/PGc15Jan12.jpg

Regards,

Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT, the USA)

 

¤······Subject: Mars Drawings 13 Jan 12

Received: Sun 15 Jan 2012 22:36 JST

Dear Masatsugu and Masami;

These are the Mars drawings from 13 January.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120113/Kz13Jan12.jpg

Best wishes,

Ichiro KOHZAKI (Tokyo, JAPAN)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 2012-01-15-05-22-00-UT

Received: Sun 15 Jan 2012 22:15 JST

Hi all, here my first Mars image this year.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120115/SKw15Jan12.png

Cheers

Silvia KOWOLLIK (Ludwigsburg, GERMANY)

 

¤······Subject: mars sketches 15/01/'12

Received: Sun 15 Jan 2012 20:53 JST

Hi, here are my sketches from january 15

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120115/KSm15Jan12.jpg

Date: january 15

Time:  01:40 & 04:30 UT

instrument: 12" f/5 dobson

magnification: 416x

seeing: good and very good

filters: #23A red

Greetings,

Kris SMET (Bornem, BELGIUM)

 

¤······Subject: Re: Text for CMO/ISMO

Received: Sun 15 Jan 2012 19:18 JST

Dear Masatsugu,

You will find attached the text on the Sorbonne Observatory which I propose for publication in CMO/ISMO. The other files are photos which can be included according to your choice and the place available. Presently, I have received the message from Bill Sheehan. It will be a pleasure to show him the refurbished telescope.

With best wishes.

Francis OGER (near Paris, FRANCE)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 2012/01/15

Received: Sun 15 Jan 2012 18:00 JST

Hello,

Here is Mars on 2012/01/15.

The seeing was average. The transparency was average. T = -1.7°C

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120115/JPp15Jan12.jpg

Regards

Jean-Jacques POUPEAU (Essonne, FRANCE)

 

¤······Subject: Additional Mars images from Jan. 11

Received: Sun 15 Jan 2012 10:53 JST

Gentlemen,

This set of images was captured about an hour earlier than the image I previously submitted.  Seeing was not as good, but you really can tell that from the processed images which turned out pretty good.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120111/PGc11Jan12.jpg

Regards,

Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, CT)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 2012/01/14

Received: Sat 14 Jan 2012 21:15 JST

Hello,

Here is Mars on 2012/01/14. The seeing was average. The transparency was fair.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120113/JPp13Jan12.jpg

T = -1.5°C. Regards

Jean-Jacques POUPEAU (Essonne, FRANCE)

 

¤······Subject; RE: mars 10 January

Received: Sat 14 Jan 2012 07:49 JST

Dear Masatsugu MINAMI

  PLEASE Pardon me, this PROBLEM is for UTC time, now is different 3.30 with GMT my  WATCH was 4.30 PLS one hour DRAW BACK that is correct for 5 & 10 January .

 Thank you very much for your information.

 Best Wishes

 Sadegh GHOMIZADEH (Tehran, IRAN)

 

¤······Subject; from bill sheehan: visit to Juvisy

Received: Sat 14 Jan 2012 05:57 JST

Dear Dr. Oger,

   I am writing to you at the suggestion of my good friend Masatsugu Minami, who worked closely with you in 2009 to organize the great Mars meeting at Paris/Meudon at which I also was present. I will be in Paris between February 18 (arriving by early train to Paris from Chamonix) and remaining through the 23rd. I am hoping to visit Juvisy again, now that the refurbished telescope is once again in place (and if possible would like to observe Mars with it!) and though I had been in contact with Suzanne Debarbat about this, Masatsugu reminded me that in fact you are the person who is probably in best position to organize this.

   I hope you are well and thank you advance for any assistance you may be able to give during my visit.

  Best wishes,

   Bill SHEEHAN (Willmar, MN)

 

¤······Subject; RE: Sincere Sympathy

Received: Sat 14 Jan 2012 02:03 JST

 Dear Masatsugu,

  I am very touched by your kind words.  Many thanks.

  I am looking forward to reading Don's Six Decades of Observing Mars.  I am not yet up to fifty years myself.

 Now in the midst of consolidating plans for my revisit to Europe--and hoping to train many historic telescopes on Mars as it approaches its early March opposition (very similar  in circumstances to the first I observed, that of March 9, 1965).  I also am preparing a talk, "Whatever happened to the canals of Mars?" which I am to give along with another on the transit of Venus at AstroFest in London, before I set out for the Continent.  Hopefully I will be able to write up brief reports for CMO of my experiences along the way. Ever,

 Bill SHEEHAN (Willmar, MN)

 

¤······Subject; Mars: 13/01/2012

Received: Sat 14 Jan 2012 01:34 JST

Greetings all.

We had some reasonable conditions last night and I spent a few hours with Mars and managed to make three reasonable disk drawings.  Mars is now at 10" and so I find I can see a number of details at x250 power or more.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120113/PAb13Jan12.jpg

Drawing 1: NPC now noticeably smaller, Lowell band dark and a slightly brownish colour. Acidalium now coming onto the disk and the region seems to be darker on its proc. side.  Chryse quite bright now.  Indeed it seems that there might be clouds in Chryse, Tempe and Tharsis as this region seems bright and of a whitish colour.  Seeing is only average for most of the time so it is hard so be sure.  Erythraeum dark and showing regions of different intensity. Sinus Sabaeus on the Proc. side, Noachis and Argyre bright?

Drawing 2: Seeing reasonable, definition fair. Now Acidalium and Erythraeum are well on the disk.  Interestingly, it seems that the brighter regions of Chryse, Tempe and Tharsis seem to be dimmer- morning clouds which have dispersed??  Some wonderful colours present on the disk.  A vast amount of dew had formed and dripping down the telescope and onto the floor!

Drawing 3: Acidalium and Erythraeum now on the proc. side.  I think that Nilokeras and Ganges may have changed a little since last time, perhaps in both direction and in intensity (darker)- it is hard to be certain as definition now seems to be falling off.

0207UT-0210UT: Examined Mars with #80A filter.  Interestingly, Acidalium and Erythraeum seemed to be largely unchanged, and the brighter regions of Chryse and Tempe seemed to also be unaffected (I was expecting them to be brighter).

Mars passed close to star HIP56618, was quite interesting to watch Mars move past the star over the course of the night- no danger of an auscultation.  By 0346UT I decided to move on to Saturn.

All best wishes,

Paul G ABEL (Leicester, the UK)

MMATH(hons) AMInstP FRAS.

Centre for Interdisciplinary Science

Department of Physics & Astronomy,

University of Leicester,

 

¤······Subject: Mars 2012/01/13

Received: Fri 13 Jan 2012 17:40 JST

Hello, Here is Mars on 2012/01/13. The seeing was average while the transparency was poor. T = +3.6°C

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120113/JPp13Jan12.jpg

Regards

Jean-Jacques POUPEAU (Essonne, FRANCE)

 

¤······Subject: Mars image - Jan. 11, 2012

Received:  Fri 13 Jan 2012 11:37 JST

Gentlemen,

Attached is an image from Jan. 11.  Seeing was above average.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120111/PGc11Jan12.jpg

Regards,

Peter GORCZYNSKI (Oxford, Connecticut)

 

¤······Subject: RE: Francis Oger

Received: Fri 13 Jan 2012 03:57 JST

Dear Masatsugu,

   Just back from the meeting of the AAS in Austin, Texas—where I presented a talk on transits of Venus on a program I co-organized with Jay Pasachoff.  In general, I don’t like meetings, and this was particularly hard since my dad died just a week previously.  But somehow I soldiered on and I think it went all right.

   Thanks for the suggestion to write to Francis Oger—I do remember him well from the 2009 meeting in Paris. In fact, I am going to be meeting up with quite a number of friends I made during that meeting, and am also hoping to train the French telescopes (including those at Nice and at Juvisy) on Mars. I do not know as yet whether the Meudon telescope has been rendered useable again with the replacement of the previously frozen dome.

   All the best for another good year of Mars observations,

   Best,

   Bill SHEEHAN (Willmar, MN)

 

¤······Subject: A moonlit night

Received:  Fri 13 Jan 2012 03:39 JST

 Dear Dr. Minami, The moon is bright enough for me to read the thermometer on the wall of my small dome which says eight degrees below zero! Mars in the X500 field of my Baader Planetarium 60° binoviewr is swelling up to 1.5 times, pulsating and drifting, suggesting different layers of current in the atmosphere above. No Syrtis Major, no Elysium nor even NPC, I think I'd better go to bed!

 Good Seeing with Excellent Scopes!

    Reiichi KONNAÏ (Fukushima, JAPAN)

 

¤······Subject: Mo 09 Jan_12

Received:  Fri 13 Jan 2012 00:27 JST

Masatsugu MINAMI sama, We had a lot of clouds on 9 Jan, but a bit good seeing. I wished I could make the image to be more in good colour.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120109/Mo09Jan12.jpg

Best wishes

Yukio MORITA (Hatsuka-ichi, Hiroshima, JAPAN)

 

¤······Subject: Mars - Jan.9th, 2012

Received: Thu 12 Jan 012 03:18 JST

Hi Mr. Minami, Here is my latest processed session from Jan.9th, 2012.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120109/EMr09Jan12.jpg

Efrain MORALES (PUERTO RICO)

 

¤······Subject: Mars 2012/01/09-Kumamori

Received: Wed 11 Jan 2012 23:10 JST

Masatsugu MINAMI sama, This is a shot after a while. I attached the B image in addition to LRGB. At present by trial and error I am groping the size of magnification.

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120109/Km09Jan12.jpg

With best wishes,

Teruaki KUMAMORI (Sakai-Osaka, JAPAN)

 

¤······Subject: Drawings of Mars                                                      

Received: Wed 11 Jan 2012 14:00 JST

 Dear Dr. Minami, Attached are the latest drawings of Mars.

  http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120107/Kn07Jan12.jpg                  

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~cmo/cmons/2011/120109/Kn09Jan12.jpg

Extremely changeable weather around here has been breaking the forecasters' hearts lately, all kinds of weather in a single night, frequent aftershocks to boot!…some seismologists suggest they can be the foreshocks for a possible massive another earthquake in the near future. Just hope the weather will look up soon, because the exciting aphelion Tharsis ~ Amazonis ~ Elysium hemisphere (though may be photogenically boring side) is turning observable from our longitude.

  Good Seeing with Excellent Scopes!

 Reiichi KONNAÏ (Fukushima, JAPAN)

 


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