[RightWhale]

earth and the moon taken from the spacecraft orbiting Mars?

It was surprising that Dr Malin's brainchild has that capability. Perhaps one day we will set up our Dobsonians at a Martian starparty and everyone will peer through the eyepieces at earth with appropriate oohs and aahs .

[Joe Hadenuf]

Or even on the lunar surface. The "seeing" must be spectacular......

[Joe Hadenuf]

Thought you would like to see this.

May 7, 2003 | Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope's powerful new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) have taken the deepest visible-light image ever made of the sky. The 3.5-day (84-hour) exposure captures stars as faint as 31st magnitude, according to Tom M. Brown (Space Telescope Science Institute), who headed the eight-person team that took the picture. This is a little more than 1 magnitude (2.5 times) fainter than the epochal Hubble Deep Fields, which were made with the Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. It is 6 billion times fainter than what can be seen with the naked eye.