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I was lucky enough to have good seeing conditions over the weekend, so Just as the sun dropped below a nearby escarpment, I swung the scope around to the western sky at about 45 degrees and scanned around. Found venus fairly easily through the finderscope, and then got nice views with a 12mm Delos eyepiece. The following morning, I got up at 5am to see Jupiter - there was a bit of high cloud around but I got good views. I tracked it with the hope of following it after sunrise, but fog and mist rolled in.
Hi Patrick,
Its incredible to think that daytime astronomy was used by surveyors before GPS. I suppose they would have needed some training in astronomy. Did they use their theodolite to look at the stars?
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