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Members' Observations - Mars 00:12 UT 8 April 1999

Mars, imaged on 8 April 1999 at 00:12 UT by Ian Smith. Ian used a 20 cm aperture Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope and a Starlight Xpress MX516 CCD camera at a focal ratio of f/10.

North is at the top left of the image. The central meridian is at 284°.

The bright area on the perimeter of the visible Martian disk at 4 o' clock is the Hellas region, while the dark mark extending from it to the disk's centre is Syrtis Major. The dark grey region to the upper left of the disk is the Utopia region.

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