jupiter first time

[astrocookie]

my early christmas present was a 12" dob:eyepop::D

Anyway, I finally got outside on friday night to give it a test run, and my test target was jupiter. with my 15mm eye piece, the moons and dust clouds looked beautiful.

It was the first time that I saw jupiter with such detail, and i hope to get outside again when/if the clouds go away for summer.

:D:D:D

[barx1963]

Nice Present!:eyepop:

12" Dob is a great piece of kit. Solid tube or collapsible?

Malcolm

[astrocookie]

solid tubed to answer your question.

At the moment it's living inside. I built an observatory for it but its not quite finished yet :(. The intention is that it will live in the observatory during summer, and come inside for winter.

Its a tad bit heavy to be moving around in the wee small hours of the morning:P

[Robh]

Molly,

That's a great Christmas present!

I have a 12 inch dob that has given me many hours of relatively stress-free, enjoyable viewing. For the views you get, they are are fantastic value.

Regards, Rob

[barx1963]

Molly
I have the solid tube 12". Wonderful piece of kit for the $$$. I find the base is the clumsy thing to move about especially at 2am in a freezing winter night!
Jupiter is a great target, but where a scope like this really excells is on the DSOs.
Hope to hear plenty of reports on what you are seeing and how the Observatory is progressing!

Malcolm

[Kevnool]

What a great prezzie.
You thought Jupiter looks great, When Saturn in the morning at present catches your eye then you will have the biggest wow factor.

Cheers Kev.

[mgarnett]

I was given an Meade 8" LX90 and saw Jupiter also for the first time in such detail. The moons were clearly visible and and I could clearly see the coloured banding.

I was astonished at how good the view actually was. Simply the best Christmas present ever.

[Vegeta]

my first taret for my 12" solid tube dob was jupiter, and it was a spectacular object indeed. the great red spot was visible as well as 3 cloud belts on this beautiful object. The real wow factor is saturn though. I got up at 3:30 a.m to see it, and it was worth all the effort used to get up and set up the scope.