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Mars to shine bright on Christmas eve
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by ryan | December 24, 2007 at 02:08 pm
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Sky watchers will be treated to a red light in the sky this Christmas eve and it's not Rudolph.
Astronomers say the planet Mars, as well as the moon, will shine exceptionally brightly on Monday night because of its positioning relative to the Earth and sun. Mars will sit "in opposition" to the sun, which means it will be directly opposite to it, giving its red surface a brighter than normal reflection to viewers on Earth.
The planet won't be as noticeable for another nine years, astronomers said.
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at 14:55 on December 24th, 2007
This pic was taken with a Sony DSC-H2
6.0 Megapixels. 1/10 & f3.7 with a tripod (of course :)
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at 15:01 on December 24th, 2007
Ryan, Mars was very visible yesterday evening, December 23, after the rain ended here on the U.S. east coast. The full moon was shining with a distinctly reddish object glowing to the right of it.
at 15:12 on December 24th, 2007
oh, that was Rudolph getting warmed up for the big night.
at 15:15 on December 24th, 2007
Well, he's ready!
at 15:51 on December 24th, 2007
as evidenced by the NORAD Santa tracker, he sure is making good time.
at 18:57 on December 24th, 2007
ryan nadel, From Whistler it is quite visible
at 20:29 on December 24th, 2007
Shot of the moon, considerably fast shutter speed due to the brightness.
1/1250th @f/5.6, tripod used.
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at 23:22 on December 24th, 2007
this shot of moon and mars is taken in eastern switzerland with a Pentax FA 77 lens.
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at 00:29 on December 25th, 2007
Mars passing under the Moon at 00:58:58 AM EST on 24 December 2007
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at 02:08 on December 25th, 2007
Foto de la luna desde la ciudad de Santander (Spain)
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at 07:19 on December 25th, 2007
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at 07:28 on December 25th, 2007
This image of Mars was taken on 12/21/07 from the Dallas, TX area. While captured from my light-polluted backyard, many planetary objects are of a magnitude that they are easily imaged, even in bright skies. Equipment used:
Meade 8" LX90-LNT Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
ToUcam 740k Web Camera
Exposure of approx. 2/10 sec. 500 images captured and stacked using DeepSkyStacker.
at 09:03 on December 25th, 2007
I am a photo hobbyist. Often alone in a nature with which I go from surprised in surprise. the extreme limpidity of the air, the distance from the moon closer than usually, this aspect of a Sahel 's desert for the ground, made me thought so that could be a moon lifting over terraformed Mars. I like much this photograph. It makes me become aware of our brittleness vis-a-vis to all that. (sorry for my imperfect English:)
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at 09:15 on December 25th, 2007
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at 12:24 on December 25th, 2007
Hi, thank you for using my photo, nandel. Actually mars was very close to the moon Sunday night as you can see in one of the photos. It looked like a very bright star and it accompanied the moon throught the sky. Even if you don't know this is mars, you should have guessed, because usually there's no star this close to the moon.
Last night, however, it wasn't so close to the moon, it was close to the "dome" of the sky, around east-north-east. And it was VERY red bright. I decided to take the photo shown above. I used Sony DSC H7 at full telephoto and also digital zoom (x30 total). Of course on a tripod. no other fancy equipment!
I wish next time mars will show (2013 as they say), I will have a telescope and a DSLR to take some proper photos...Till then....!
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at 22:13 on December 30th, 2007
this was an wonderful experience...we had a gate-together w/my friends in the evening...when went out to see off them...I noticed Mars is clearly visible in the sky....close to Moon.....I tempted to bring my Nikon R 300 mm lens....it was really great to see behind the lens....
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