火星 ALPO-Japan Latest

Mars Image 2019/11/07(UT)

Clyde Foster
C.Foster

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解説（安達）/ Comment by Makoto Adachi
　IR画像により、今シーズン最初のはっきりした模様が観測された。画像の上の逆三角形の模様はシルチス（Syrtis Major:293W,+0~20）
である。また、その下にある三角形の模様はウートピア（Utopia;W260,+37~55）である。右横にボレオシルチス（Boreo Syrtis;
W285,+43)の先端部が淡くあるように見えるが、かすかである。IR画像であるため、両極地方に明るい白雲はないようだ。

The first clear pattern of this season was observed by IR images. The inverted triangle pattern on the image is Syrtis 
(293W, + 0 ~ 20). The triangular pattern below it is Utopia (W260, +37 to 55). Boreo Syrtis on the right side The tip of W285, + 43) 
looks pale, but faint. Because it is an IR image, there seems to be no bright white clouds in the polar regions.

（by 1 observation; reported by Makoto Adachi)
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Mars 2020. A rather inauspicious start to what should, hopefully, be another amazing apparition, with Mars growing to 22.6" later in 2020. 
Although moving north, it should be well placed from my location for me to comprehensively cover the apparition still.
Mars will always remain special for me, as it was the planet that started me on my planetary imaging journey.
The IR capture was half an hour after sunrise this morning, at an altitude of 22 degrees in poor seeing, and with the planet at 3.7" in size. 
Syrtis Major can be made out at upper right and Utopia Planitia in the lower section of the planet.

[Clyde Foster:Centurion,South Africa]

ALPO-Japan Latest Mars Section	2019/11/11
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