Mars Opposition & Closest Approach Star Party - August 23-30, 2003

Mars Reprocessed from Night of Closest Approach. From Lake Titicaca, Bolivia South America at the Inca Utama Hotel. Celestron C-9.25 inch telescope with 2x Astrophysics barlow stacked on a 2x Astrophysics barlow and a Phillips ToUcam web camera. 200 video frames stacked using Registrax software and finalized using Adobe (C) Photoshop. Photo by Vic & Jen Winter (C)2003/Icstars Astronomy. This compares to Lowell's drawings of the famed "Canals of Mars" in the late 1800's.

Slide Shows From the Mars Watch Star Party

- Mars Images -

- Group Photo -

- The Observers -

- The Area -

- Telescope Donation -

- Elementary School Donations -

- High School Donations -

- New Observatory Site -

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