Current Conditions at the Observatory

Monday, January 21, 2008

13 January Observation

Right ascension 5 hours, 41 minutes, 52 seconds
Declination 26 degrees, 56' 34"
Magnitude -1.1
Distance from Earth: 0.660 AU
Mars is now little more than an orange-yellow disk in the cold January sky as our planet continues to pull ahead of it in orbit around the sun. What might be surface detail, or what might be a "phase" is still barely visible, but I doubt if it will be for much longer.

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