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The CMOs are found from CMO Indexes The following are the CMO Documents filed in this Web-Site Back to Forthcoming 2007/2008 Mars Back to Forthcoming 2005 Mars Back to Coming 2003 Great Mars OAA Mars Section Reports 2007/2008 OAA Mars Section (see from CMO #330 to #348) 2005 OAA Mars Section (see from CMO #300 to #326) 2003 OAA Mars Section 2001 OAA Mars Section 1999 OAA Mars Section 1997 OAA Mars Section Observation Notes 2005 Mars CMO Note (see from CMO #318 to #332) 2003 Mars CMO Note 2001 Mars CMO Note 1998/99 CMO Note 1996/97Mars Sketch 1994/95 Mars Note Some of CMO Meetings The 12^th CMO Meeting on 4 - 5 May 2004 at Anamidzu The 11^th CMO Meeting on 2 - 5 May 2003 at Fukui The 10^th CMO Meeting on 2 -5 August 2002 at Ina The 9^th CMO Meeting on 20 -22 Oct 2001 in Okinawa The 8^th CMO Meeting on 15-17 Sept 2000 in Yokohama Letters to the Editor Archives CMO Clicks Index CMO Members (further under construction) Here you may Jump to Our Favourite Links!

Communications in Mars Observations (CMO) is an international journal on the global Mars observations published monthly or semi-monthly by the Mars Section of the Oriental Astronomical Association (OAA), Japan. The CMO reports promptly world-wide observations of Mars sent to the OAA Mars Section in each season. The accumulated data are analysed in the coming off-season. The CMO was first published on 25 January 1986, and hence we celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the CMO at the beginning of 1996 in No 171. The present Web-Site is to provide some news from the recent issues of the CMO. The oldest issue in this web-side cited is No 175 (25 June 1996) while some other previous data are to be uploaded. (13 February 1997) Members of the CMO Editorial Board: Tadashi ASADA (As) (Jan 1986~May 1991, Oct 2008~) Masatsugu MINAMI (Mn) (Jan 1986~), Masami MURAKAMI (Mk) (May 1996~), Takashi NAKAJIMA (Nj) (Jan 1986~), Akinori NISHITA (Ns) (Mar 1992~) Hitomi TSUNEMACHI (Ts) (Apr 2000~Sept 2008) The CMO Web-Site is edited and maintained by Masatsugu MINAMI, Masami MURAKAMI, Akinori NISHITA and Hitomi TSUNEMACHI The Oriental Astronomical Association (OAA) was established in 1920: The first president was the late Professor Issei YAMAMOTO, Kyoto University. The OAA celebrated its 80^th Anniversary in 2000. The OAA Mars Section was founded at the end of 1933: The first coordinator was Eitaro DATÉ under the auspices of Issei YAMAMOTO, Shotaro MIYAMOTO and Shigemaro KIBÉ. In 1935 DATÉ gave a first report on the OAA Mars observations. After the war, the OAA Mars Section was long directed by Tsuneo SAHEKI. It is widely known that SAHEKI in 1937 finely detected a new marking called later Antigones Fons near Syrtis Major at the Kwasan Observatory, Kyoto University. He also traced the development of Nodus Laocoontis since 1946. In 1954 he detected a glint phenomenon at Edom Promontorium, and the phenomenon of the same kind was later detected and confirmed by an American team in 2001. SAHEKI wrote a book on Mars and its observations in 1967. SAHEKI vacated the chair of Director to Masatsugu MINAMI on 1 April 1990. MINAMI’s first series of observations were made in 1954, and since then four great oppositions at 1956, 1971, 1988 and 2003 passed on. At present, the OAA Mars Section is directed by Masatsugu MINAMI, and the Secretariat is kept by Tadashi ASADA, Takashi NAKAJIMA and Masami MURAKAMI. We have had several occasions to hold the CMO Meetings, and especially held a Lowell Conference at Anamidzu in 2004 under the joint auspices of other societies. We celebrated the 20^th Anniversary of the CMO at the beginning of 2006 with CMO #315. Masatsugu MINAMI (Japanese) Masami MURAKAMI (Japanese) Hitomi TSUNEMACHI (Japanese) Masatsugu MINAMI (English) Masatsugu MINAMI (Chinese) Any interested person is invited to send emails to Masami MURAKAMI cmo@mars.dti.ne.jp and/or to Masatsugu MINAMI vzv03210@nifty.com Back to the Façade