Patrick, it looks like you have the SPOC refractor reserved for the night of the 17th. Are you planning to use it to image or observe the Saturn/Mars conjunction that night? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
I've got it reserved for the evening's public star party so anything is fair game. It would be fun to see two planets in the same field of view so I'll give it a try. However, the two will be less than 20 degrees altitude by the time of astronomical twilight and I'm not sure if the refractor can get that low. Patrick Chuck Hards wrote:
Patrick, it looks like you have the SPOC refractor reserved for the night of the 17th. Are you planning to use it to image or observe the Saturn/Mars conjunction that night?
They are both bright, worth trying while it's still fairly light. Also, 20-degrees is half the altitude of Polaris, and it's to the west, so I'm betting we can squeeze it in. Would it be OK if I brought my camera and adapters, and promised to not take more than fifteen or twenty minutes? It would be, as you noted, before it was truly dark anyway... If someone had a video-eyepiece and monitor on a portable scope, this would be an ideal target for a public star-party night. --- Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
I've got it reserved for the evening's public star party so anything is fair game.
It would be fun to see two planets in the same field of view so I'll give it a try.
However, the two will be less than 20 degrees altitude by the time of astronomical twilight and I'm not sure if the refractor can get that low.
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