From Johan WARELL
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. . . . . .Date: Tue, 09 Sept 2003 23:08:32
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Subject: Mars
September 9
Dear all,
An image of Mars from last
night, unfortunately in rather poor seeing (again). A drawing
will arrive as soon as it is scanned.
Cloud activity is low, with equatorial ev and mo clouds over Syrtis and Solis Lacus. NPH is
very thin and blends into limb hazes at this longitude.
The frequency filtered blue image does not represent the
natural extents and opacities of clouds and hazes. At a later date I will send
versions of the unfiltered blue channel for all dates I have image data.
Best wishes,
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. . . . . .Date: Tue, 16 Sept 2003 14:57:04
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Subject: Mars Sept. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15
Dear all,
A new batch of Mars observations
from the past week. It has been interesting to follow the
gradual rapid shrinking of Novissima Thyle during this period. I can no longer detect it visually
in my moderate seeing skies and 25 cm aperture.
The drawings and webcam images will follow in two separate
e-mails.
Best wishes,
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. . . . . .Date: Sat, 20 Sept 2003 13:31:47
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Subject: RESEND Mars Sept. 10, 11,
12, 13, 15 (webcam)
Dear Masami,
I am resending my webcam images here as it seems you did not
receive them.
Best wishes,
Johan
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. . . . . .Date: Sun, 21 Sept 2003 16:32:53
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Dear friends,
Two more sets of webcam Mars images. A drawing
from Sept 18 and an image from last night Sept 21 will also follow in due
course.
All the best,
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. . . . . .Date: Sun, 21 Sept 2003 20:22:25
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Subject: Mars Sept
21
Hi again,
Last night's best image, from
Yes Richard, you're right in that especially the blue images
show spurious linear streaks. They are definitely not real. This effect is
evident on some dates, some not. I do not currently know what causes this, but
I have noticed it from the first night I began imaging. It is reminiscent of
the fringing effect seen in red and near IR flatfields
and spectra occurring with ordinary silicon chips due to interference in the
chip structure. But this is mainly evident in the blue. Will
look further into this as time allows.
Anyone has any ideas?
Best wishes,
Johan WARELL (Lunar and Planetary
Laboratory,
