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Old 28-12-2012, 06:35 AM
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What were your best observations in 2012 and will be in 2013 ?

Just curious.

My best achievements were:

Feb 2012 taking nice pictures of the sky in Bali see here: http://skysurfer.eu/skypics2.php

Mar 2012: Purchase of EOS 7 + 70-300 5.6L

June 2012: viewing and picturing Venus and Jupiter in full daylight :
http://skysurfer.eu/planets.php (Saturn at night).

June 2012: refurbishment of my 39 years old 80mm f/6.3 spotting scope.
http://skysurfer.eu/polarex80.php

Apr-Aug 2012 seen several stars in daylight

Even Epsilon Lyrae (not in video).

Aug-Sep 2012:
Taken some pictures of Veil/Witchbroom (NGC 6960) and Banana (6992) nebula.

And several visual observations of really faint objects NGC 147 and NGC 185, the latter even with an 8cm telescope.

Dec 2012: Mercury (-0.3) in full daylight.

2012:

Feb: trip to South Africa including dark areas for visual and photographic observations with Televue Genesis and 15x70 binos.


---- Whar were yours ?
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