middy
22-04-2007, 10:09 PM
A mate brought his scope around to my place on Saturday night for an observing session. The clouds rolled in and parked themselves about an hour after we had set up, but we kicked back with a few beers and looked through the occasional hole in the cloud. Jupiter eventually broke through at 12:30 am for a long enough spell to capture some footage with astro_south's Toucam.
The seeing was atrocious and Jupiter had a bad case of the shimmers so this is the best I could do with the available data.
The scope used was a Russian made SCT on a snazzy mount with Meade Autostar GOTO (I want one :thumbsup: ). I don't know the details of the scope other than it was a 7" and ~1700 mm focal length. We also couldn't do a proper polar alignment because of clouds when we set up, so it was only roughly aligned.
The seeing was atrocious and Jupiter had a bad case of the shimmers so this is the best I could do with the available data.
The scope used was a Russian made SCT on a snazzy mount with Meade Autostar GOTO (I want one :thumbsup: ). I don't know the details of the scope other than it was a 7" and ~1700 mm focal length. We also couldn't do a proper polar alignment because of clouds when we set up, so it was only roughly aligned.