Re: [chat] Anyone have a good Telescope or good Binoculars?

[Mike Lake <Mike.Lake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:06:19PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Michael Lake said:
> >Mars is Very^2 small. Binoculars will show it as a "red coloured star"
> >and nothing more. You won't see a disk let alone the "Face on Mars" :-)
 
> According to the JJJ news yesterday, because it's getting close to
> (us|the sun) you'll be able to see the polar ice caps with binoculars.

Ok maybe, so its coming up to opposition (closest approach) - it'll still be
like trying to see two white maggots chewing into a small lump of red meat
from opposite directions at 10 kilometers :-)

Mike
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