Mars
Someone posted this link to my astronomy club mailing list. These are “superbly detailed images of Mars”.
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These images were taken with a C14 so I can’t expect to match these photos, even under the best conditions, despite my lack of skills, with my tiny 8 in. scope. Anyway, I thought it was a marvelous shot by an amateur astronomer, Damian Peach.
As some of you may know, there was a hoax going around the Internet this summer that said the Mars was going to approach so closely to Earth that it would appear as large as the full moon.
This is not true, of course.