From Christophe PELLIER
® . . . . . . . . Sent:
Wednesday, August 27, 2003 6:24 AM
Subject: Mars,
august 26 2003
Hi observers : last night I have seen the
quality of the seeing passing from very poor to fair or even fairly good in
just a matter of minutes :-o. I think however that because of my fear of the
clouds I have adopted incorrect parameters for the RGB images which are too
noisy. The morning haze is very bright, however.
http://astrosurf.com/pellier/2003-08-26-CPI
regards
® .
. . . . . . . Date: Thu, 28 Aug
2003 01:22:19 +0200
Subject: Mars, august
26-27 2003
Hi everyone, the seeing last night was
again very variable and in one hour of time passed from very poor to good ! Unfortunately there was also a haze that has
considerably lowered the contrast of the images.
http://astrosurf.com/pellier/2003-08-27-CPI
Regards
® .
. . . . . . .Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 01:41:23 +0200
Subject: Mars, august
30-31 2003
Hi all, here are what could remain as
my best images of Mars. Again, last night the seeing evolved from very poor to
good very rapidly around 0 H UT, and this time no haze was around ;-) The
evening mist to the east of Syrtis Major is quite
prominent.
http://astrosurf.com/pellier/2003-08-31-CPI
Best wishes,
® . . . . . . . .Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:45:05 +0200
Subject:
Re: Mars, august 30-31 2003
Thanks Clay. I have also remarked how fast
the SPC has shrunk in only two or three weeks ! And
now in the following longitudes it's almost invisible, due to the non-centered
cap over the pole...
----- Original Message -----
From: "P. Clay" <drclay@arksky.org>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: Mars, august 30-31 2003
> Very nice images Christophe....
> I am reeling from the incredibly rapid shrinking of
the SPC over the past
> week.....the image you
provided surely demonstrates the remarkable recession
> of it, just since our bad
weather moved in on August 29....
>
> [[ NOTE to all.....The ASO
website is experiencing equipment difficulties
> and some data will be off line for a bit....thanks
for bearing with us....]]
>
> Clay
® . . . . . . . .Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:44:23 +0200
Hi observers, as I had good seeing on
Mars two nights ago, I have waited to make my first images of Saturn of the new
season. I have used the two webcams (colour and b&w), but the planet is still dim and I could not use
much filters. Even the IRcut was too much for the colour Toucam. Maybe the images
are too heavy to be passed on the Saturn-ALPO group ?
Best wishes,
PS : some of you may want to receive only Mars images from me, please feel
free to tell, if so.
® . . . . . . . .Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:36:00 +0200
Subject:
Mars, september 1st 2003
Hi all : for
these the seeing was fair.
http://astrosurf.com/pellier/2003-09-01-CPI
Steady skies
Christophe PELLIER (Bruz,
