Forum: Photography

Subject: Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August.

jocko500 opened this issue on Aug 22, 2007 · 7 posts

aangus posted Sat, 25 August 2007 at 5:53 PM

http://planet-mars.net/
According to this article Mars  will be  (or was) 1/2 a degree magnified through a large telescope, while the moon is 1/2 a degree unmagnified. Still an excuse to dig out the telescope and have a gander.
Thanks for the tip off.