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Originally Posted by David_W
Hi Everyone,
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I was just outside looking at Jupiter through my new TOA-130, and during periods of good seeing I could see a very small dark spot at the same latitude as the
~middle of the SEB. To me it looked tear-shaped and elongated N/S, and smaller than any of the moon shadows, and not as dark as a shadow.
I observed at 22:30EDST (12th Nov) and the spot looked about an hour after passing the central meridian, and seemed directly south of Callisto (Callisto was near Jupiter's NP). I don't have a CCD or anything so couldn't capture an image. Has anyone else seen this spot? It's probably just a random spot, but it was quite conspicuous and isolated on the disk, it stood out from the usual darker patterns at that latitude, and I haven't seen anything like it before during this apparition. I know we're all waiting for the SEB revival so I thought this was worth a post.
Anyway I thought I'd see if anyone else had seen it tonight, or perhaps imaged it?
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David could you give us some info on the eye pieces used? Is the scope a Refractor?
I am not familier with the scope mentioned
BY 130 I presume it is about a five inch scope
Any other information would be appreciated
Thanks