Totally agree. Patience and persistence are the keys.
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Originally Posted by Rigel003
Some good advice here regarding scopes and collimation but the limitation on planetary viewing is always going to be the atmospheric seeing. Even with the best planetary scope there will be some nights where you can't see much on jupiter. A 12 or 16" won't help (except you might get a bit more colour in the mush.) Those perfect nights when you can rack up the magnification and see great detail are few and far between unfortunately. Collimate as well as you can, let it cool down well , view when the planet is as high as possible, and then add a measure of patience until you find those great nights.
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