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I had a look at Jupiter, Mars and Saturn this morning (about 2.30am) with my Vixen ED115S refactor. Finally, this great period of oppositions is about to begin.
Mars is starting to grow in size, but was still too small to see any details at 130x. Saturn was low and the only moon that I could see was Titan. There is still quite a distance (10+ degrees) between Mars and Saturn and it was surprising to think that this will close to within 2 degrees by the end of March.
Jupiter was more striking and as Europa approached its limb, I could see its shadow on the far side of the planet. I like these little exemplars of the 3D nature of our solar system.
With my weather, if may be another month before I see these again.
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