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Mars Image 2013/07/22(UT)

Livio Finocchi
L.Finocchi

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Mars at 03:08 UT
Meade LXD 75 8" f/10   222x+zoom 10x    single shot.
Morning was good, seeing and trasparency too, so I tried to capture my first 
martian image of this year. Altitude was only 11°, diameter 3.9" and mag. 1.6, 
el.24°,in conjuction with Jupiter (47') and Mu Geminorum (2.9 mag.) that 
improved my searching. I needed lots of shots to have the image I send, and 
even if it's a poor picture I'm satisfied for the results, that show the small 
disk and probably a polar cap up right (North is up). In the same morning I 
tried to find Mercury, 8° far from Mars, but my horizon begins at 5-6° and the 
planet was too faint to catch in the morning light.

[ Livio Finocchi,Tagliacozzo - L'Aquila ITALY ]

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