First Drawing of Mars Opposition

* Object Type: planet
* Location: CASTRES (Tarn – France) 43° 36′ 19″ Nord2° 14′ 27″ Est
* Date: 5th February 2014 4hTU
* Media: pencil HB + 2B, white drawing paper, scanned + rescaled + colorized with PhotoPaint

Orientation: north is up
Conditions: 2°C, no wind. 70% humidity
Equipment:
– Dobson Pearl 203mm
– Eyepiece hypérion 5mm Mag 240X

Hello,

After à rainy and mainly cloudy winter ( just some clear nights with poor seeing …) last sunday before the dawn I get some reasonably average condition to observe Mars and to try my first drawing of the 2014 opposition, inspite the small diamètre (10.9″)

Hope many others will follow Emoji and perhaps if best condition occurs with my 22″ dobson

Thanks for your interest.

Clear sky

Emmanuel Pélegrin
APAM astro club

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