On Nov 9, 2003, at 10:52 AM, Jeff Gortatowsky wrote:
>
>> It would be a very boring life there.
>
> Ah. But very little light pollution! LOL! At least for a few years!
> And no
> MOON!!! ;)
Well, no big moon anyway. Phobos and Deimos wouldn't get in the way of
deep sky observing but they would be fun in themselves. And Phobos
travels across the sky "backwards", ie from west to east!
> Few neighbors! Wonder what detail would be obsevable on Earth? The
> moon?
Seeing detail on the surface of Earth would be difficult because you
still have to look thru Earth's atmosphere. And, of course, it's
awfully small. From Mars, Earth is at most about 47 arcseconds and the
Moon only 13 arcseconds.
> And perhaps decent seeing most nights. Bill Arnett? What would the sky
> be
> like over the course of a Martian year?
I don't really know. And I'm sure it varies considerably depending on
your location on Mars. Sometimes it's cloudy (or dusty :-( But when
it's good it must be VERY good!
> Wonder what the 'pole star' is?
Somewhere between Cygnus and Cepheus.
> And
> would the seasonal sliding of the constellations be the same just
> roughly
> twice as slow?
Yeah. But the martian "zodiac" would be a different set of
constellations.
-- Bill Arnett bill@No-Spam http://nineplanets.org/ Emerald Hills CA USA 37 27 N 122 15 W