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RE: Planet Mercury and what lies there
What size telescope were you able to clearly see the polar caps with? I haven't ever had any luck with the ones people I know own. Is it clear enough to get a picture of?
Mars details are something I absolutely want to see myself sometime.
In image I made with 12" Dobsonian in early June,2016, shows the polar areas pretty well and I suspect there was a far bit of cloud around the caps that obscured them.
Wow!!! This makes me want to go get a telescope, but I'd have to drive out somewhere to use it. That's such a cool image to have taken yourself.
I think I can see Olympus Mons there, but that could be a cloud.
Just checking the date and time for the image and that feature is indeed Olympus Mons :)
The polar caps vary a lot, not just from the normal season's caused by the axial tilt of Mars but because the orbit is actually quite elliptical and consequently its distance from the sun varies a lot. When they are developed I have seen them clearly in an 8" telescope.