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clouds seemed to roll through all night, but fr a short spell 11:30 to 1:30 had a nice clear sky and saw Jupiter, in the first instance clouds drifting in front and lowish on the horizon, but later it was higher and clearer and made out some details, and think we spotted 3 of the moons. With Christmas lights going on all around was hard to get dark adapted but they should die down over the next week.
We saw lots of stars and lots of details, but didn't know enough to know what we were actually looking at. If tonight is clear I think we will head out with a vry limited list of what to look for and some maps that will confirm when we find it.
Biggest issue at this point would seem to be getting a really good alignment of finder scope to main scope. Im thinking after one nights viewing a telrad or similar may not be such a bad idea, always thought I could roughly line the scope to the area of the sky I wanted to look, but to say I sucked at this is a bit of an understatement.
Also suggestions of height adjustable chairs were well founded.
Aerogard is also high on the shopping list today.
GaZ
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