by Rich Neuschaefer
The seeing was quite good. After transit the seeing was coming and going but lots of detail frequently. The image through the 36" refractor improved a lot using a red filter. The dark features became much easier to see and much less bloated. They became much better defined.
Several amateurs had scopes set up out behind the old observatory. I had my AP 180EDT. With the binoviewer plus its barlow, the 16mm Zeiss Abbe Orthos gave a very nice image. The dark features were easy to see. Relatively early in the evening it looked like there was a cloud on the northern limb of Mars. Later, near transit, the northern cloud was gone.