LtE in CMO #276
From Elisabeth
SIEGEL
® . . . . . . . .
Date: Thu, 31 July 2003 14:43:44 +0200
Subject: RE:
Good to hear
Dear Masatsugu,
Thank you for your mail. I and the
family have been away on vacation from July 23 - 29, so I couldn't answer you
earlier. It sounds like you're having a good time in Okinawa, devoting most of your time to Mars.
I'll send you six more July
observations today. As I don't have your Okinawa address, I
hope it's all right to continue sending the stuff to Mikuni.
It's a little tough for me to keep
watching Mars these days, as we have our house full of guests. Wayne's brother from California, his sister from New Jersey and her husband and son are here, as well as Gabriel (who moved out in
March this year to live on his own in Aarhus, closer to the university) and his fiancée. She has been his girlfriend
for more than a year now, and in February they became formally engaged, with
silver rings and all. With Wayne, Mira and me, that's a party of nine people.
We went to Copenhagen and then later spent a few days in Sweden, before we returned to our home here in Malling on
the 29th. When we arrived here, I got a wonderful surprise: our neighbour to
the south of us, who used to have a huge tree that bothered me a lot during my
Mars observations, has chopped down the tree! It's gone! I'm tremendously
pleased!
Yes, it's true, being a visual Mars
observer, I feel I'm "one of the last dinosaurs". But with you
observing visually too, at least I'm in very good company! I know I'm missing a
lot of surface detail, but basically, it's the atmospheric phenomena that
count, and I believe I'm able to observe those reasonably well.
Wayne, Gabriel and Mira all send
their best regards - which, of course, I do too. Clear skies to you!
Sincerely,
® . . . . . . . .From:
"Elisabeth Siegel" <esiegel@ofir.dk>
To: <cmo@mars.dti.ne.jp>
Sent: Thursday,
August 07, 2003 9:54 PM
Subject: RE: CMO 2003
News #5
Dear Masami MURAKAMI and Masatsugu,
In response to your e-mail "CMO
2003 News #5" I should like to inform you that as I observed Mars
last night (August 7 at 00:10 UT, with a CM
of 158.3°), I noticed that the following
about-one-fourth of the SPC looked thin and shadowy. I was quite unprepared for
this sight (I just read your email, and it is now mid-afternoon here), and the
last time I observed - on August 5, also just after midnight UT - I did not notice anything of the kind. So your message was most
pertinent, it seems... and right on the mark.
Elisabeth SIEGEL (Malling
Denmark)
esiegel@ofir.dk
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