* Object Type: planet
* Location: CASTRES (Tarn – France) 43° 36′ 19″ Nord2° 14′ 27″ Est
* Date: 5th February 2014 4hTU
* Media: pencil HB + 2B, white drawing paper, scanned + rescaled + colorized with PhotoPaint
Orientation: north is up
Conditions: 2°C, no wind. 70% humidity
Equipment:
– Dobson Pearl 203mm
– Eyepiece hypérion 5mm Mag 240X
Hello,
After à rainy and mainly cloudy winter ( just some clear nights with poor seeing …) last sunday before the dawn I get some reasonably average condition to observe Mars and to try my first drawing of the 2014 opposition, inspite the small diamètre (10.9″)
Hope many others will follow Emoji and perhaps if best condition occurs with my 22″ dobson
Thanks for your interest.
Clear sky
Emmanuel Pélegrin
APAM astro club
SITE WEB http://planetarn.pagesperso-orange.fr/manu/MANU.htm
Astronomie: comptes rendus d’observations
Météo: bulletin non conventionnel à 15 jours
Vidéos de Manu
http://www.youtube.com/user/manutarn
I’m impressed Emmanuel, very good work indeed and inspirational for me 🙂
Dale UK
Très beau rendu Emmanuel.
La tache claire en haut ne serait-elle pas la calote polaire ? Apparemment il y a des tempêtes sur Mars. Tu fais la météo pour Curiosity aussi ? … 🙂
Bravo pour cette belle observation.
Jean-Marc
Emmanuel,
I really like this treatment of Mars,
Well done.
Frank 🙂