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Mars Opposition Blog 5 July 2024

The SPC continues to shrink, and is too tiny upon the sub-6 arcsecond diameter disk to offer any interior details.

More observers have now joined in. Highlights since the last post are: (1) During April 21-25 Clyde Foster caught a

The 2024-25 apparition of Mars has begun. In fact, ever since 2024 January 10 we have been receiving a series

Deep Sky Note #4 When I read Callum’s Deep Sky Update for February, I totally missed the mention of the

Observations are continuing, although the disk diameter is now only some 6 arcseconds. It is a challenging planet visually, requiring

With the arrival of batches of drawings from M.Green, A.W.Heath and P.Lyon the total number of observers has risen to

Today we are summarising the January observations. The disk now shows a notable phase, and is shrinking fast. Nonetheless I

With this first post for 2023 I wish you all a Happy New Year. Let us hope that globally it

Deep Sky Note #3 It has long been a matter of heated contention whether this gorgeous double star is a

A week after opposition, and the final blog post for the calendar year, as observations have been continued by over