Sketchbook from Joshua Tree October 2, 2005. Sketched at Paul Livio's Joshua Tree property. Mojo gave his awesome sky tour to the assembled family, friends, students and neighbors while we waited for Mars to rise.

We made these sketches using our Astro Physics f/9 180EDT refractor using Zeiss Abbe Orthos and binoviewer for 304x. Notice how much Syrtis Major rotated in one hour. Here is a fun compilation of Mars sketches . In these two sketches North is up. Syrtis Major is pointing to the north pole.

Mars CM 281 by Jane Houston Jones 10/2/05 11:37 UTC, 04:37 a.m. PDT	Mars CM 298 by Morris Jones 10/2/05 12:37 UTC, 05:45 a.m. PDT

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