{"id":5488,"date":"2010-01-18T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/18\/springtime-on-mars-as-seen-from-the-sabine-hills\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:07:10","slug":"springtime-on-mars-as-seen-from-the-sabine-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/18\/springtime-on-mars-as-seen-from-the-sabine-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Springtime on Mars (as seen from the Sabine hills)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ian Sharp<\/a> in Britain took this image at 0:54 UT January 4, 2010. The North Polar Cap is huge and obvious. The slightly bright region on the southern limb (top) is the dusty Hellas basin. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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After months of looking at Jupiter, we now have a good view of Mars. On Saturday night we had a “Mars-rise” over Monte Calvo shortly after sunset. Mars is really bright now (explained below) and the distinctive red color really jumps out. <\/span><\/p>\n

I didn’t take the picture, but the shot above gives you a good idea of what I was looking at on Saturday night. The Northern polar cap was very apparent in my six inch Newtonian Dobsonian. It looked like it had a dark border around it. Martian North is at the bottom in this shot. It is Spring in the Northern hemisphere of Mars now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mars is now in a very good position for observation from Earth. On January 27, it will be in full opposition:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So hey, this is the time for those of you who are hoping to win the Elser-Mathes Trophy! Aim those Yagis and be sure to tune UP! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ian Sharp in Britain took this image at 0:54 UT January 4, 2010. The North Polar Cap is huge and obvious. The slightly bright region on the southern limb (top) is the dusty Hellas basin. — After months of looking at Jupiter, we now have a good view of Mars. On Saturday night we had … Continue reading “Springtime on Mars (as seen from the Sabine hills)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy","category-mars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}