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Originally Posted by floyd_2
I had high hopes when I looked outside this afternoon after lunch. Beautiful blue sky as far as I could see. By about 4pm my hopes were dashed. Cloud as far as the eye could see. At least I have some subs of NGC1365 to play with now 
What time did you see Saturn, Adrian? |
Must have been around 12 midnight.
I couldnt be bothered setting up my telescope propper. I just opened the back door and pointed it out the back door into the north eastern sky. I did not even wait for it to cool, I just pointed it in the finder and put an eyepiece in .
To my surprise for fleeting moments when the tube currents were in some sort of alignment or something I could see what I think was a bit of band detail on saturn. Might have just been that focus came in better at those moments. I was able to see 1 moon with unadjusted night vision eyes and a second one with averted vision.
But of course I could have gotten a better view if I setup the eqmount tracking and all that.
Gotta say though, tracking at a bit over 200x was pretty annoying. How do guys do it tracking Saturn at over 400x in their dobs I may never figure out. Its become obviously clear to me Ive become tracking spoiled. So it will obviously influence my next telescope choice. Sorry Mr. Dave K, but the obsession dob is on the backburner for now.
