Dinner with friends…

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Guacamole and chips and champagne

Yesterday marks the first time since the pandemic started that we have had dinner with our friends.

A discernible shape?

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This is the much enlarged image of Mars

In my previous post I said that Mars actually appeared as a tiny sphere.  Here is a much enlarged portion of that image — it’s not much to look at, but I’m tickled that it doesn’t appear to just be a diffraction pattern from a point source of light…

Moon and Mars

In the original, if you zoom in so that pixels are individual squares, Mars actually is a discernible sphere.

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Lower left, needing no introduction, is the Moon. Upper right, in the far far distance, is Mars