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Old August 27th, 2003, 09:25 PM

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He is still driving his mighty armada at 3 miles per month along the interstellar highway bypass and will be arriving shortly
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Old August 27th, 2003, 09:27 PM

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this is interesting as well

http://mars-news.de/color/blue.html
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Old August 28th, 2003, 07:47 AM
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I saw it.

Fortunately, the sky is clear tonight. I first saw Mars when I was driving, and I looked at the sky over to the east and bit to the south. It's so bright that I could see it even with all the lights from the street and the buildings. I couldn't see any stars because of all the city lights, but Mars is so bright that I still couldn't miss it.

Then I went to the park, which is a bit darker, so that I could have a better look. It's definitely very bright, and it does have a reddish color to it. It's much brighter than any of the stars. But all I could see is a glowing point of light, because I don't have a telescope.
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Old August 28th, 2003, 10:05 AM

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cant see it. the sky is prolly still covered with smoke, and then the rain clouds that kept pouring rain on us since ~4pm. havent seen stars in a long while.

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Old August 28th, 2003, 11:18 AM
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Well, about half an hour until closest approach (if my math is corect), and even with all the lights in my apartment complex Mars is still pretty darn bright. I guess it's because of those lights, but Mars has more of a peach-orange color when I looked at it a few minutes ago.

I just wish I still had my old telescope...
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I Saw it on the 27 and the 28 thru my cheap telescope, it looked like the moon but red.
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Old September 20th, 2003, 07:41 AM
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I could still see Mars tonight. It's still pretty bright, even though it's been a few weeks. I was under the impression that you have to see it that one particular night or you'll miss it, but apparently that was not the case.
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It's still the brightest thing in the sky other then the moon I believe. But now to me it doesn't have the obvious orange color like it did when it was at it's closest point.
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