Mars and Moon in heavenly show

[shady-lady-45uk]

its lovley and clear out but cant get a decent pick to save my life lol.....

[iwiw60]

Mars and the full Moon pair up to provide a grand celestial spectacle on Friday night.

The Red Planet, now 62 million miles from Earth, will be at its brightest this year as it lines up opposite the Sun.

At around 9pm, Mars will be above and to the left of the Moon, about the length of an outstretched fist away.

Well, DRATS!!! It's been snowing here all day long, and not expected to lift til tomorrow sometime....oh well....let me know how the show went, sounds like it would be spectacular!!

[bykimbo]

Rain & cloud here.

[earthangel]

We've got a great view of the celestial bods here. Alas, I have no telephoto thingumajigs. Oh well. (Oh, and I waved to the Martians!)

[Rednosty]

We've got a great view of the celestial bods here. Alas, I have no telephoto thingumajigs. Oh well. (Oh, and I waved to the Martians!)

Are you sure your not spying on the Nieghbours AGAIN

[earthangel]

Are you sure your not spying on the Nieghbours AGAIN

Only our cosmic neighbours!

[kengillam]

Heres the shots I managed to get tonight too much contrast to show Mars and the moon in the same shot. The Mars shot is about 3X the size of the Moon shot to give an idea of scale. Need a more powerful lens for Mars though, perhaps I should ask the missus to get me the Hubble for my Birthday

[shady-lady-45uk]

well if anyone was going to get a fantastic shot it had tobe you......amazing ken.......

[Gill]

Now that's what I call fantastic photography!

[astral276]

Thought Mars was red???