Today, Wednesday 8/27/03 Mars is as close to Earth as it has been in
60,000 years. I’m just wondering if any in the community with an interest in astronomy has been observing it. I don’t have a telescope so I’ve just been reading about it.
/me was watching it severall days ago. i could see the poles and some blueish structures there, using my celestron c8.
i told my mum to buy books and filters, maybe i will be able to see more tonight … the difference of distance is not that great from day to day. much more important is the state of the athmosphere.
i think the beauty of astronomy aas hobby is seeing more every night, cause you learn it better all the time.
overhere it’s to close to the horizon to atch, at last that’s hat they say.
it’s pretty cloudy right now so I fear I’m going to mis it
it is just starting to get dark here and i will be looking. i love astronomy.
can you see it from the uk?
No, Mars is boycotting the UK. Mars is pissed off because the Queen didn’t send Mars a birthday card last year. 
lol, i went out to have a look. Of course, i have no gear, not even a pair of binoculars, so i got to see a bright star with a reddish tinge. Quite a let down.
cree: heheh.
I actually just saw it yesterday outside. There were hardly any lights on, so all I saw was the sky, a WHOLE lot of stars, and a huge red DOT. Pretty awesome. rice.
I’ve been meaning to, but I just haven’t yet.
I guess now we know why elYsiun’s “landscape” is reddish.
I’ve been out a few of our local Astronomy CLub’s observing events, and we’ve been fielding a lot of calls about it here at the Planetarium where I work.
Mars is currently visible as a bright, orange-to-butterscotch color “star” rising in the southeast as the Sun is setting, so that it’s up fairly high for viewing by 10:00pm local time (YMMV based on your local time zone).
For anyone clouded out, Mars will still be abnormally bright for the next few weeks.
-Waylena
Anyone watching Mars?
How could we not, its a huge orange ball in the sky that just grabs our attention!!! hehe 
It’s also really cool, and im glad to see threads here of other peoples astronomical interests!!!
Matt
Blend on, and blend well!!!
I’m trying to figure a way to view it myself.
I even have a friend who lives in the country with clear night skies
and he has a telescope but it’s missing a part! Nuts!
I gotta find me a telescope before this thing gets away!
I watched it. there was some sort of event in a college near my house to celebrate the occasion. the explanation was boring and all I saw through the tiny telescope was round orange sphere… oh, no that was a street lamp Mars was even smaller!!!
well I wasn’t very disappointed, I now you need a bigger telescope to see something like that:
its not just the size of the scopt that matters, its mostly how experienced the observator is. try it again, and you will see more, it needs training.
also important is what you exspect. images like the one you posted cant be seen visual i think (and if they could be seen, only with best possible athmosphere and a huge telescope). photograhicaly is much more possible …
Yeah! That’s what I say!
It’s not the size that matter’s but how you use it!
Seriously though it’s a good point.