(Luna) . . . And other times obscured

Posted from iPhone camera through the binocular telescope with a 25mm eyepiece giving 36 power.

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Luna at times she peeked between the clouds

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It's looking real bad now with tons of clouds, don't stop by

I just called one of the members and told him to stay home it's too cloudy out.

Sorry everyone who might have read this and hoped to stop by. Looks like mother nature isn't cooperating.

I'm going to leave early, there's no point in staying at an observatory to watch a sky full of clouds.

I'll walk the track and go home to sleep.

The weather looks to be bad for the nest couple of days. It may clear up Sunday night. I may be out Sunday night.

Greg


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I'm going to the observatory at this moment

12 pm Friday night

Some bino lunar viewing and we will see what happens sky wise.


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I could also make out small craters with the 15mm eyepiece and the binocular telescope

For example this crater.




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I got out for about an hour with the binocular telescope

Focused on looking at the moon and identifying craters. I identified a crater that shares the same name as a friend of mine. Also some other craters. . . some being quite small and others being larger of course. The relief or shadows near the terminator are simply spectacular through the binocular telescope. The maps and illustrations don't do it justice.

Here's a sample from moon atlas that shows a large crater in deep relief due to shadows that any telescope should easily see.

Image below from moon atlas.



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Jupiter Thru Nexstar 4SE

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Do you wonder where I've been. I've been under the weather. That is suffering from some kind of cold, ailment or whatever. It was so bad I thought I was going to pass out and felt sick enough to check myself into ER last week. I didn't know if I was having a heart attack or what? I felt dizzy and as if I would pass out any moment, so off to ER I went.

Tonight I'm still under the weather and I didn't plan out going out to the observatory, because I've been to much under the weather. I did however take a quick look out with my telescopes at home and took a few shots of Jupiter with my little Nexstar. The sky is so transparent and wonderful tonight. I wish I felt better and could have been out and opened up the observatory. It's also cool out and no bugs were biting.

I combined trips tonight, that is I took out my binocular scope briefly before eating dinner out tonight.

I felt like my back was ripped up pretty well and I haven't even done anything to cause that.

Finally after viewing the moon a bit, I drove home. Immediately seeing that the seeing looked good, I brought out the Nexstar. I decided to take a few photos through it, using the T mount on the regular eyepiece, and shooting through a 25mm and then 15mm eyepiece. Here's the results

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Comparison of three Actual Size, jpg files. Unretouched, from Canon T1i.

These taken through a T mount (lower Right, inverted image) and a 25mm Plossl (handheld at 3x zoom into eyepiece), and through a 15mm (handheld, 3x zoomed into eyepiece).

No processing of the jpgs has been performed. All were displayed in actual size. Reduced sizes would make them sharper of course.