No, you cannot see the canals on Mars in binoculars, because there aren't any. :)--> You need a good telescope at least 90mm in diameter to see any of the features on the Martian disk.
If you see the picture I took of Saturn to the left, under my name, Mars will get to be about that big--in a telescope at 48x. If you just look up at it, it will be a very bright red "star" in the southeast sky at about 10pm local or so. Can't miss it, there's nothing even close to it that is that bright or that red.
You can go out tonight and see it if you don't want to wait. To the naked eye, it won't get any bigger than it is tonight, although it will get a little brighter over the next 2 weeks.
The fool hath said in his heart, "PFAL is the Word of God..."
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Zixar
Yep. I haven't had a good night to take the scope out, though. I'll take some pics when I get the chance.
The fool hath said in his heart, "PFAL is the Word of God..."
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sirguessalot
Please do, Zix.
Hey, is it true that you can see the canals with a set of binochs?
I also read that Mars will be largest in the sky around the end of the month.
Do you know how "large" it's gonna get?
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suz
I saw it & it was kewel, didn't want to wait till the next time....
Suz
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Kit Sober
Mars is related to warfare -- I am expecting (and already experiencing) increased spiritual warfare.
A nice thing is that Aug 27 is new moon -- when the demons are at their weakest -- a good time for fighting.
Hopefully,
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sirguessalot
Amen
There are times for peace, and times for war.
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Zixar
No, you cannot see the canals on Mars in binoculars, because there aren't any.
:)--> You need a good telescope at least 90mm in diameter to see any of the features on the Martian disk.
If you see the picture I took of Saturn to the left, under my name, Mars will get to be about that big--in a telescope at 48x. If you just look up at it, it will be a very bright red "star" in the southeast sky at about 10pm local or so. Can't miss it, there's nothing even close to it that is that bright or that red.
You can go out tonight and see it if you don't want to wait. To the naked eye, it won't get any bigger than it is tonight, although it will get a little brighter over the next 2 weeks.
The fool hath said in his heart, "PFAL is the Word of God..."
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sirguessalot
Thanx Zix.
What, no canals? (I feel dumb)
Next thing yer gonna tell me is that there are no martian amazon princesses either?
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