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Mars (Planet, est. mag -1.5, est. to be in Aries)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Mon Sep 26 03:20:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1345
This evening, My brother Anthony and I observed Mars with my 127mm MAK. The dark areas of mars appeared to be Mare Cimmerium and Mare Sirenum. The north polar hood showed up very well and is blue colored. The limb haze on the western edge was fainter and colorless. The south polar cap continues to shrink and is not easy to see. The limb haze seems to link up the north polar hood and the south polar cap. Finally Mars looks to be more than 95% full.
Mars (Planet, est. mag -1.0, est. to be in Aries)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Fri Sep 2 05:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1300
I observed Mars early this morning with my 127mm MAK. Right now Mars is 85-90% waxing gibbous. The south polar cap is showing very nicely now. It is still fairly large. There is limb haze on the left side of Mars and the polar hood over the north polar region is easy to view now. Dark albedo features on Mars are getting very easy to observe. I may have been observing Syrtis Major. Later in the predawn hours, I observed Saturn. The rings are now tilted a lot less than last year. Also, the south equitorial belt is still easy to see. This evening, my friends, Mike Dzubaty, his son Mike, Steve Borer and I observed Venus and Jupiter together in the western sky. Spica was also nearby.
Mars (Planet, est. mag -.5, est. to be in Aries)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Aug 18 05:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1287
This morning, I observed Mars with my 127mm MAK. Mars looks to be about 85% waxing gibbous now. There was a very obvious dark feature on Mars which I believe was Syrtis Major. It was very easy to see. Surprisingly, I was able to observe the south polar cap only with great difficulty. The polar hood over the north pole is just becoming visible now.
Mars (Planet, est. mag -0.6, est. to be in Aries)
Observer: Vedran Vrhovac (e-mail: vedran_vrhovac@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Velika Gorica, Croatia
Light pollution: light Transparency: excellent Seeing: good
Time: Wed Aug 10 02:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1284
I'm observing Mars with my new scope for just 3 weeks almost every clear night. Its very hard target but practice makes it perfect. This night I saw Syrtis Major, large dark triangular area, Hellas - bright region souht of Syrtis Major and SPC. I also saw Arabia (lighter pacth in north-west of Syrtis Major) and Mare Serpentis (it looked like lighter extension of Syrtis Major in the west) and Mare Australe (dark ring around SPC).
Mars (Planet, est. mag 0.0, est. to be in Aries)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 127-mm other Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Wed Jul 27 06:30:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1271
This morning, I observed Mars with my 127mm MAK. The south polar cap is still rather large. I still see no sign of it starting to shrink yet. The only dark feature I saw was just above the south polar cap. I think the feature I saw was Mare Australe. Also Mars and the moon were in conjuction. This only added to my viewing pleasure. Finally, Mars still looks about 70% waxing gibbous.
Comet (Comet, est. to be in Aries)
Observer: Andrew Powell (e-mail: vader2005@fsmail.net)
Instrument: 60-mm refractor Location: Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Mon Jan 10 22:30:43 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1140
Today was my first viewing of machhloz through my telescope i am an amatuer i only got my scope for xmas. I couldn't see the tail of the comet but i was a stunning sight to see. The colour wasn't really green but more of a greyish white but still is was beautiful. i would appreciate any tips for further viewing of the comet or planetry viewing.
Mars (Planet, est. mag 1.0, est. to be in Aries)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: naked eye Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 2004 UT Obs. no.: 949
Tonight, after dinner, I went outside to view the very close conjuction of the moon and Mars. It was quite a sight. They were just .9 of a degree apart. The moon still had good earthshine to it. Even though we can't observe Mars in backyard scopes anymore, because of its increasing distance from us, Mars will continue to give us observing pleasure with more conjunctions between it and the moon and also with other planets.
Jupiter (Planet, est. mag n/a, est. to be in Aries)
Observer: Roger Curry (e-mail: rcurry@mediaone.net, web: http://www.nefas.org)
Instrument: naked eye Location: Jacksonville, FL, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Fri Apr 7 00:40:00 2000 UT Obs. no.: 521
I went to a small park on the east side of the St Johns River and was treated to a beautiful view of the conjunction of Jupiter with Mars and the Moon with Saturn. I used a low-light video camera (Supercircuits PC23C) with 50mm Contax f/1.7 SLR lens (giving approximiately 5 degree FOV) to record real-time images to Hi-8 video tape. I digitized the recording using Dazzle video capture device and made a mosaic of three still images. The mosaic and the full video are available on my FTP site at ftp://24.129.70.60 A high speed digital or cable modem is recommended for the video, since it runs about 35 Mb.
Saturn (Planet, est. to be in Aries)
Observer: Dave Mitsky (e-mail: djm28@psu.edu)
Instrument: 15-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Harrisburg, PA, USA
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Oct 31 03:20:00 1999 UT Obs. no.: 488
After participating in a public star party at Hershey Park's Zoo America's Creatures of the Night I joined fellow ASH member Roger Studer in his secluded back yard for some end of DST observing. Using his 15" f/4.5 Obsession Dob we observed a variety of objects including M76, NGC 2022, NGC 1931, Jupiter, Saturn, and M45. We tried to log SN 1999el in NGC 6951 but had no luck in seeing it. However, the seeing was just fantastic and more than made up for not detecting the supernova. There was ample detail in Jupiter at powers in the upper two and three hundred range. Three festoons were clearly evident extending from the NEB and a red barge within the NEB was nearing the preceding limb. The real surprise was the amount of detail seen in the southern hemisphere of Saturn. I could easily see a thin white zone following a thin gray belt to the south of the planetary equator. And the south polar area was a distinctly darker shade of gray.
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