From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: January 21, 2010 2:22:17 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Mars again!

Hi Jim,

Very nice image! I think you are correct that this is not a cloud based brightening - I will forward a recent image received yesterday that shows this well.

Thanks for posting. Seeing forecast looks poor for the next couple of days, but if you don't get out, it's even worse!

cheers,

Alan

On Jan 21, 2010, at 3:58 PM, jimchung2338 wrote:

Wow, look at all the activity on this forum!

And now my turn to add to all the traffic. Mars from Toronto this morning (Jan21) with my 12" SW dob under average seeing conditions - I takes what I gets.

What's interesting is the bright area that I can see in both images which seems to correspond to the Eysium Mons peak (14,000 m elevation). I don't think its a cloud formation since it doesn't appear in the blue channel, only clearly in the green channel.

Ideas?

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Planetary/MarsJan21b.jpg

Jim