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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

A picture of Mars

Mars is near opposition now, which means that it's fairly close. So I tried taking some pictures, using my 8" Celestron ttelescope and ToUCam 840 Webcam. Here's my first result - not too great, but shows the polar cap:

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