We took the kids to a S.P.A.R. "Star" party lastnight....in hopes of seeing Mars up close and personal...(I wanted to see its Southern, or Northern polar caps)...anyway...we were first in line early on, and saw a hazy befuzzled Mars,(it hadn't risen high in the sky yet) through this huge telescope thingy...which was pretty cool, and then cloud cover came in, and we waited and waited....for 3 hours, in line, in one place, and the clouds never cleared...too bad, we were bummed...we did make it on two TV news stations though, and that was worth the price of admission to the kids

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Has anyone else been able to see Mars through a telescope, or been privvy to any "star parties"??