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Mars Image 2014/05/05(UT)

Leo Aerts,Paco Bellido,Alessandro Bianconi,Lorenzo Comolli,Trevor Barry,Efrain Morales Rivera,Carlos.E.Hernandez,Torsten Hansen
A.Leo,P.Bellido,A.Bianconi,L.Comolli,T.Barry,E.Morales,Carlos.E,T.Hansen

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Please find herewith an imaging result on Mars,dated May 5th 2014.
Olympus Mons is central on the Martian disc.  All information is included on the image.

[ Leo Aerts: Belgium]

[ Paco Bellido :Cordoba Spain]

Mars 2014.05.05 L.T.23.25
Celestron C14HD + GM2000QCI
Barlow 2X C.Zeiss (0,09 arcsec/pixel)
QHY5L-II mono
RGB Astrodon Filter

[Alessandro Bianconi:Perdasdefogu ITALY]

[Lorenzo Comolli,Italy +45d 42'44"N 08d 54'26"E]

[Efrain Morales Rivera  Aguadilla:Puerto Rico]

I made an observation of Mars on May 5,2014 (03:30 U.T. or 11:30 PM EDT) using
my 9-inch (23-cm) F/13.5 Maksutov-Cassegrain (190x and 258x). The North Polar
Cap (NPC) was small and irregular surrounded by a very dark to dark (2-3/10)
collar. A very bright (8/1) and elongated streak was visible South and preceding
the central meridian (CM) which may represent an ice remnant,water-ice cloud,
or possibly a localized dust storm. Panchaia,Utopia,and Umbra appeared dark to
dusky (3-4/10) South of the NPC. Casius was a spear-like dark (3/10) albedo
feature following the CM. Elysium appeared as a bright (7/10) circular feature
with a localized bright to very bright (7-8/10) feature over it's following half
(cloud?) towards the preceding limb. Chaos,Morpheos Lacus,and Hyblaeus
appeared dark to dusky (3-4/10) over the North-following corner of Elysium. Mare
Cimmerium and Mare Tyrrhenum appeared dark to dusky (3-4/10) towards the South
separated by a bright (7/10) Hesperia. Dusky to dull streaks were noted over the
northern border of Mare Cimmerium over Zephyria and Aeolis. I noted the Syrtis
Blue Cloud over Syrtis Major (3-5/10) towards the following limb. The "Syrtis
Blue Cloud" is a discrete topographic (localized) cloud composed of water-ice
aerosols and carbon dioxide crystals that forms over the Libya basin and Syrtis
Major Planum (8.4°N,69.5°E; originally thought to be a plain but found to be a
Hesperian age (3.7-3.0 Billion years) low-angle basaltic plains volcano by the
Mars Global Surveyor) during late spring and early summer of the northern
hemisphere. This cloud gives Syrtis Major a "bluish" appearance that was first
noted in 1858 by the Italian astronomer Pietro Angelo Sechhi (1818-1878;
Director of the Roman College Observatory in Rome) who named it the "Blue
Scorpion." This cloud is best seen when Syrtis Major is near the limb. Isidis
Regio and Libya contained very bright (8/10) clouds over them.

[Carlos.E. Hernandez  South Florida U.S.A ]

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