From: "Tim" <tjp314@pacbell.net>

Date: October 30, 2005 11:55:23 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Mars Observations, Oct 30th, 2005

All:

I'm posting my mars observations from last night/this morning to the files/plantery section.  

David Moore sent around his observations from this morning that showed a brick reddish 

patch adjacent to the dust storm southwest of Meridiani, and I was relieved because mine 

show the same feature (and I've not seen that before - but that doesn't mean it's particularly 

unusual).

This morning, I set the video to 8-bit, because I could adjust the gamma of the Flea only in 

8-bit mode.  And with a gamma setting of 2.0, I got the best contrast between albedo 

features I've gotten with this camera.  

Sorry for the pdf format of the images.  I only have Office on this mac so far, so I had to use 

Word to set the page up (and then "printed" to a pdf file).  Preview has no trouble viewing 

these files, though.

best,

-Tim.