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What is the point of looking at Jupiter more than once (with the same telescope), or looking at stars at all (why not just a star map, or use Stellarium)?
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Didn't you recently upgrade from a small scope, as I see now you have a 10". Sorry, but I'm just so surprised at that response.
Matt (Kunama) pretty much summed up how I feel. Though I have a Chardonnay in hand
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I think most of us that do this hobby have a passion, a wonderment, and feel quite emotional with the beauty of the nightsky and peering through a telescope gives us the opportunity to open a window into the universe and ponder the greatness out there and how small we are on this tiny pale blue dot of a planet. Speak of "pale blue dot" Carl Sagan's words sends me into a frozen, teary state. I could sit there for hours just aimlessly whizzing the scope around. So many star clusters there you'll stumble across, like jewels in the sky, all different colours, shapes, it's a magical experience enjoying these beauties alone.
I'm not sensing that emotional connection with you
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I just don't understand why you would only want to see a planet once and you're over it
. Sorry, not meaning to be judgmental, but you have a 10" dob, views through it esp. on planets are pretty amazing. They will be back in our nightsky soon enough, don't worry. I don't think there's ever been one time that I've had the scope out and *not* quickly pointed it at a planet and been breath taken
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Watching the shadows of Jupiter's moons transiting the planet is cool!
Even as most of us go onto to do different things within this hobby (I do comet observing), many of us still have that emotional connection.
This hobby takes patience, tolerance and gives us a challenge (in whatever area of astro).
And probably most importantly, it brings us "peace". We feel good after it.