{"id":201,"date":"2005-10-21T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2005\/10\/21\/mars_october_21\/"},"modified":"2021-11-27T23:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T23:18:32","slug":"mars_october_21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2005\/10\/21\/mars_october_21\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars &#8211; October 21, 2005 &#8211; 07:30-08:30 UT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:myVoid()\" onmouseover=\"rollover('img2005102101')\" onmouseout=\"rollout('img2005102101')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2005\/img2005102101_MarsA.jpg\" name=\"img2005102101\" alt=\"Step 1\" border=\"1\" color=\"FFFFFF\"><\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><br \/>\n<!--\nsetrollover(\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2005\/img2005102101_MarsB.jpg\");\n\/\/--><br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><i>Move mouse over image to view labels.<br \/>\nEast and West noted in the sketch are Martian E\/W, not celestial E\/W.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Observation Notes:<\/b><br \/>\nDuring the first half of this observation, the sky was reasonably clear, but the scope was still cooling down. A bit later, when the seeing began to improve, a thin smear of horizon-to-horizon clouds moved in. Everything got very muddy. Bah! I was hunting for evidence of a dust storm moving south out of Chryse. I think I spotted a notch it might have taken out of Aurorae Sinus. The North Polar Hood was very evident and notched.<\/p>\n<table width=\"470\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding-left=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Subject<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Mars &#8211; Central Meridian: 60\u00c2\u00b0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Classification<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Planet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Position*<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Taurus [RA: 03:08:03 \/ Dec: +16:24:43]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Size*<\/b><\/td>\n<td>20.12&#8243; (Equatorial diameter)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Brightness*<\/b><\/td>\n<td>-2.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Date\/Time<\/b><\/td>\n<td>October 21, 2005 &#8211; 12:30 AM to 1:30 AM<br \/>\n(October 21, 2005 &#8211; 07:30 to 08:30 UT)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Observing Loc.<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Flagstaff, AZ &#8211; Home<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Instrument<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Orion SVP 6LT Reflector (150 mm dia.\/1200 mm F\/L)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Eyepieces\/Mag.<\/b><\/td>\n<td>10 mm Sirius Pl\u00c3\u00b6ssl+ 2X Barlow (240X)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Filters<\/b><\/td>\n<td>#21A Orange, #80A Blue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Conditions<\/b><\/td>\n<td>High thin cloud layer, cool<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Seeing<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Ant. III<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Transparency<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Unmeasured, but basically horrible<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>*Sources<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Orion&#8217;s The Sky Astronomy Software<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars 2005102101<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,79,69,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetary","category-sg-mars","category-sg-planetary","category-sketch-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":308,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2006\/12\/10\/conjunction_of\/","url_meta":{"origin":201,"position":0},"title":"Conjunction of Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Beta Scorpii","author":"jperez1690","date":"December 10, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Conjunction of Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Beta Scorpii","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Planetary&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Planetary","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/planetary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":143,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2005\/08\/02\/mars_august_2_2\/","url_meta":{"origin":201,"position":1},"title":"Mars &#8211; 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