Last Wednesday I stood in line for over an hour to see Mars through the college's observatory telescope. We ended up not getting to go into the observatory at all (only the first 200 were allowed in) but there were 3 almost equally powerful telescopes set up on the grass outside the observatory. I looked at Mars through one and could see some shadows -- could have been craters? or gases?-- it was a neat experience. We could see it with our "undressed" eye too as we were waiting in line.