Ever since reading of the canals of Mars in my treasured possession of my childhood, Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia, I was enchanted by the planet. Of course the Mariners spacecraft of the sixties found no canals or seas, only craters like the moon. Despite being well aware of, this during the opposition of 1971 with very good seeing I recorded these canals; essentially the mind connecting the dots on the planet with lines.
The observations were made with a small telescope, 4" object glass magnification 180x. They were made over a period of 2 months.
The major dark patches (albedo markings) can be recognized.
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