Wednesday, November 30, 2005
This weeks fuzzy planet photos are ...
Venus and Mars. They are both shown to the same scale. They aren't the best images, due to lots of turbulence (the stars were twinkling furiously again tonight, not as much as last night, but still pretty strong). Mars looks a bit yellower compared to the last image, apparently there is a bit of a dust storm going on at the moment. Mars has visibly shrunk (compare the previous images) and is a mere 17 arcseconds in diameter. Venus is a swelling crescent, and will get startlingly bigger in the coming weeks. NASA science reckon you can see Venus as a crescent in binoculars, but you would need at least 10x50's with GOOD optics (other wise the glare will wipe out all crescentness).# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 12:43 am 
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