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Old 29-03-2014, 03:33 PM
Stefan Buda
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Barbados seeing comes to Melbourne

Well, not quite, but it was the best seeing so far for this Mars season.
Early in the evening I could easily see white ovals on Jupiter at 400x even though the planet was at only 26 degrees altitude. Later when Mars cleared the roof at 20 degrees, it was a spectacular sight, with the blue Hellas basin contrasted against the red albedo markings and a very dark Syrtis Major. There was no hint of Jet Stream early on, but by the time I started imaging, with Mars at 40 degrees, the seeing started to come and go. It was going from quite poor to very good and back several times per minute.
I'm looking forward to hear from other Melbournian imagers.
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