This web page is a hodgepodge of information for the Mars observer and is updated periodically. Go to the new Internet Mars Observer's manual at: Observing the Planet Mars. Links to Mars Articles, Interesting URL's, Maps and Software, plus articles on Telescope Making: click dustylinks.
Mars Observers Cafe
Mars Observers Cafe
A web page to serve Mars observers that contains none of the aromatic bovine flatulence found at many Internet Mars sites. One of the amateurs’ greatest strengths is the sheer number of observers of Mars located around the Earth that permits 24-hour surveillance of nearly all Martian longitudes. Thanks for surfing here and any suggestions you may have are welcome, please e-mail me with comments
The International Mars Patrol (I.M.P.) is a cooperative program by 880 individual professional and amateur observers who are located in 64 foreign countries and U.S. territories making it possible for a 24- hour surveillance of all Martian longitudes. Established in the 1960's, by Charles F. ("Chick") Capen, the I.M.P. has contributed over 43,000 observations of Mars to date and is associated with the Mars Section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO).
"I ought not to claim that I can see the phases of Mars; however, unless I am deceiving myself, I believe I have already seen that it not perfectly round"........................................Galileo Galilei