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Like many others I had been eagerly awaiting last nights events. Had the scopes set up outside before dinner but was not happy with what I could see.
The seeing was absolute garbage, Pickering 2 at best, almost unusable. Anyway, persevered and captured a few videos of Callisto and shadow using the 10"newt at f6. Tried with the Powermate but was a waste of time because of the seeing. Could barely make out the shadow visually through the newt or the 5" apo at 150X.
As the night turned to morning the seeing worsened while waiting for Ganymede and Europa to begin transiting. I did take some more video but had no delusions about what may be extracted from them. All up about 40 Gb when debayered, most of which will need to be deleted , as they portray a mushy mess. At best there may be about 10% of usuable frames so will try.
Overall, a most frustrating and disappointing night , I hope that others around the country had better conditions and enjoyed the show.
My view of Callisto and shadow attached.
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