The 2003 Opposition of Mars - IcMars!


Ground-Based vs Space-Based - Winter vs Hubble and Martinez vs Hubble!
View Mars Images from these nights :

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.


September 26, 2003 - Mars Watch at Bonner Springs Wal-Mart

September 6-7, 2003 - ICstars Ranch

September 5-6, 2003 - ICstars Ranch

August 28, 2003 - From Bolivia

August 26, 2003 - From Bolivia

August 25, 2003 - From Bolivia

August 22, Mars Madness - Wal-Mart Sponsors Stargarden

August 16-17, 2003

August 15-16, 2003

August 9, 2003

Mars Watch Star Party Slide Show

August 4, 2003

July 31, 2003

July 26, 2003

July 25, 2003

Images by Tom Martinez & Walt Robinson.

More images will be posted as weather and the skies allow!

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