Heads up tonight for Jupiter, and Moon.

[Mark Wagner]

Good transparency, average seeing, and clear skies. Jupiter has an Io Transit tonight starting at 19:29. And of course there's La Luna later.

Anyone else been jonesing for some telescope time? Excellent opportunity for backyard observing.  See you there?

Mark

[Richard Navarrete]

I’ve had a scope out the past two nights. Just poking around. Checked out a few doubles,but sadly Jupiter has been a bit mushy for me, even though Astropherics was predicting above avg seeing. Also was playing with some astrophotography.   It’s just been nice to be outside in this springlike weather.

Richard 

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[Joel Lee]

Gonna break out the newt for another crack at Jupiter. Last clear window, the one night that had good seeing I had taken my newt inside to be worked on. All the other nights I was too busy learning how to planetary and was pushing magnification too high. 

It’s been nice at night as well so I might bring out the dob to have that try the planet at the same time. 

On a side note, any planetary people on here? Are you supposed to put the ADC before the Barlow/powermate? I think part of my issue last time was I did powermate -> Barlow -> ADC -> Camera which was a 7x power instead of my estimated 5x. My Jupiter ended up mushy haha. 

Richard, it’s the perfect time for early in the night cause those great winter objects are high up and hanging around. Early in the morning gets tough for smaller rigs though so imaging can be a bit annoying if you go for a huge nebula early at night then have only too small targets in the morning. I’m facing this issue with testing my new small rig. 

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[David Kirjassoff]

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 I've been enjoying the backyard too the last couple of nights.  Jupiter, M42, and some clusters.  And a little astrophotography as well.

David

[Richard Navarrete]

Nice, David! I tried M35 as well. Only 6 minutes of exposure time though.

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[Steve Gottlieb]

I’ll be taking a look in my driveway.  The shadow transit, itself, doesn’t begin until close to 8:00.

Steve

[Richard Navarrete]

Thanks for the update on the timing, Steve.

Richard

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[Mark Wagner]

Thanks Steve.  I misread it.  19:30 is ingress for Io.

Mark

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[Ted Hauter]

Fellow back (and front) yard warriors!

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[Steve Gottlieb]

I’ve been following Io's shadow transit with my 14.5” and its quite easy to see right now (just before 8:30), though just at the inner edge of the belt.

Steve

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[Mark Wagner]

I followed the shadow entering and for a while early on in my 10" f/5.7.  There were good moments, the shadow always easily visible, but I was chasing the seeing.  I never took magnification above 158X and found it much improved down at 142X.  

Nice getting the ten out again.  I sure do love great a great seeing for detail and doubles.

Mark

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[Ted Hauter]

Thanks for this!

Seeing decent at times. Very 3D through the binoviewer! Still getting used to learning planets now after 17 years everyday at this in some way 🙂 having to see details in small image and not go for power.

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[David Kirjassoff]

Transit looked great in my 5” frac, at least the shadow did.

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