Mars Encounter: Not since 48,000 BC and not until the 2200s

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Mars Encounter: Not since 48,000 BC and not until the 2200s

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...has and will it ever be this close. I'm glad I kept that telescope I wanted to sell multiple times now.

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Supposedly, you'll be able to make out the polar ice caps with just binoculars, which is as good as it'll get for me.

It's already very bright, and has been for a while. I'm excited!
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Im glad I got a pair of old but good binoculars from a relative.
Oohh. I wonder if there will be nighttime viewings at the James Lick Observatory here in San Jose. :)
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TrailerParkJawa wrote:Im glad I got a pair of old but good binoculars from a relative.
Oohh. I wonder if there will be nighttime viewings at the James Lick Observatory here in San Jose. :)
I wouldn't doubt it. Couldn't hurt to check into it.
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I just saw it tonight. Incredibly bright.
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Oh great, there's supposed to be thunderstorms on Wednesday around Boston. :evil: :evil: :cry:
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Oh so that's what that bright orange-ish star outside my window is. I thought it was Jupiter :oops: . I'd better take out my binoculars and check out the martians before they go away again.
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Hum, time to get my "Pu-238-Explosive-Space-Modulator" and blow up Earth, too many eyes are set upon us.
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StarshipTitanic wrote:Oh great, there's supposed to be thunderstorms on Wednesday around Boston. :evil: :evil: :cry:
Yeah, I tried to look at it last night, but then we got nailed with a fucking thunderstorm that lasted till 6am this morning! :evil:
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The 48,000 BC one was pretty cool. I convinced my friend it was the evil cave bear god coming to get him, and conned him out of his bear skull hat.... those were the days.

No luck this time around, clouds and storms for the time being :(
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Zoink wrote:The 48,000 BC one was pretty cool. I convinced my friend it was the evil cave bear god coming to get him, and conned him out of his bear skull hat.... those were the days.

No luck this time around, clouds and storms for the time being :(
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I'll be going upstate next week so I'm hoping that I'll be able to see it. To bad I'll be leaving before the 29th.
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Sounds cool. Too bad my telescope sucks.............
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I have to check this out! Perhaps I could try now!
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The friggin' forest fires are friggin' clouding the sky and I friggin' can't observe the friggin' red planet! Instead I get a friggin' orange Moon!
:evil: :evil: I which arsonists died in their own fires. :evil: :evil:
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