LtE in CMO #251
From Nicolas BIVER
@. . . . . . Here is a drawing made on August16,
following a previous E-mail I sent about feature that were more easily visible
than previously. More recent observations (Aug.
24.8 and 25.8)
are less conclusive because of poor observing conditions and lack of normal albedo features at these longitudes (CML 172ﾟW and 155ﾟW).
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@ . . . . . . . I attach here my latest drawing of
Mars, but it is already a week old as weather has been bad everyday since...
If you are
interested, I also attach my latest drawings of Jupiter and Saturn, all with my
25.6cm Newtonian from 
I also found
out that there are some jpg files than cannot read everywhere (looks like these
are of the lowest degrees of compression/degradation, below none): with a flat
scanner I could create them, but I cannot display them with my xview version (but with some netscape
ones). The two jpg attached files should be of this kind, let me know if you
also have problems viewing them.
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* Do not lit up the Sky... You
waste energy,
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" money, and glare
makes it unsafe... It is
' ' | ` ` not only your sky but world's
heritage.
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` ` The Milky Way is our home, let's
enjoy it!
@ . . . . . . . Thanks for your E-mail and keeping
on sending the CMOs. If you want or can change my
mailing address, please keep sending them to
Nicolas Biver
5 promenade VENEZIA
78000
That's really my own address, but the former one is
my parent's, just a few hundred meters away, so it is fine too. My residency in
the
Regards,
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. . . . . . . . After struggling with bad luck with the weather (i.e. no
opportunity to observe Mars for the last 2 weeks - at the time Syrtis Major
should have been visible), I finally got the opportunity to make these 2
drawings. The Mare
Cimmerium -Mare Tyrrhenum region is now clearly visible, blue-greyish, I guess not
to far from before dust storm status.
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Nicolas BIVER (