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Cube Inmate · 11-24-2005, 11:35 PM

I was just out looking at Mars in my telescope... I didn't see any canals, but I'm pretty sure I saw a face. Mars is about 0.52 AU (astronomical units) away right now, or about 78 Million km.

Cow... can I come out and use your back yard to do some telescopic viewing? I'll bring beer! It bloody sucks living in the lit-up city

btw: Neeper--nothing to do with ozone...the ozone layer starts some 15+ km above us (sources vary as to actual elevation), and the majority of the twinkling effect is caused by the lowest layers of the atmosphere...just the first few kilometers. This is why observatories are on mountain tops.

Twinkling is mostly caused by the movement of air pockets/currents with different densities. Moving air sucks.

11-24-2005, 11:35 PM	#12
Cube Inmate First Line Centre Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Boxed-in Exp:	I was just out looking at Mars in my telescope... I didn't see any canals, but I'm pretty sure I saw a face. Mars is about 0.52 AU (astronomical units) away right now, or about 78 Million km. Cow... can I come out and use your back yard to do some telescopic viewing? I'll bring beer! It bloody sucks living in the lit-up city btw: Neeper--nothing to do with ozone...the ozone layer starts some 15+ km above us (sources vary as to actual elevation), and the majority of the twinkling effect is caused by the lowest layers of the atmosphere...just the first few kilometers. This is why observatories are on mountain tops. Twinkling is mostly caused by the movement of air pockets/currents with different densities. Moving air sucks. Last edited by Cube Inmate; 11-24-2005 at 11:43 PM.