From: Willie Strickland <cwskas@earthlink.net>

Date: February 7, 2010 2:56:38 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: 5 Feb 2010 APOD Mars

WOW, that is amazing.  It is much the same face as what I captured which makes it particularly interesting to me.

Thanks for the compliments.  I have witnessed better seeing at our site, but this was above average.  I never know exactly how to describe it.  I have looked at the Damien Peach piece on the Pickering Scale, but need to train my eyes a bit better.

   http://www.damianpeach.com/pickering.htm

Revisiting the Peach descriptions, a 5 or possibly between 5 & 6, is close to what I could see with stars through the scope.  Of course I was looking using a 15mm eyepiece at 186x and 20.9' FOV.  I definitely did not see anything as good as his 7.

Willie

On Feb 7, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Alan Friedman wrote:

Thanks for sharing the links. Friday's APOD was also through a 40" telescope... this one is pretty good!:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100205.html