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Originally Posted by §AB
Thanks Doug  one thing that really caught my eye was the EQ band. I've never seen it as well defined as yesterday, even the night before with better seeing and higher mag. |
Yeah, you've captured what I've seen of that EQ band very well. A pencil thin streak right across the disk (although it bleeds out at each end in my scope).
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Originally Posted by §AB
Unfortunately, the poor seeing meant that I couldn't see the moons disk against the planet. I suspect in near-perfect conditions, with magnifications above 200x it would've been possible. (one problem with Jupiter is it doesn't handle anything above 200-250x well).
btw Doug, what telescope did you see it in?
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8" Celestron Starhopper dob - the old one with the black cardboard/sonotube, now somewhere in the Dandenongs hopefully getting good use.