MARS, Closing in !

By Wed. Aug. 27 Mars will be 50% Brighter/larger than it appears today, closing at 7500 MPH. Aprox. 179,000 miles closer each day... I am heading to the Oregon Star Party ELV. 5K'.. Transparent skys! Although the Ice cap is shrinking it will still resolve quite well.. John Meiners

This GRAND CANYON makes our little valley look like you could pole vault it.. JM

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Actually I don't think it's supposed to be THAT much closer. We're already within about 39 million miles, and closest approach is something like 34.7 million -- so it'll be about 13% closer/bigger at opposition. Still a significant improvement of course. :-) But Mars is already pretty big in the window for anyone who cares to look.