The weather is not so good down this way
To say the least
But a break in the clouds around 4.45pm I could see the Moon so i relaxed and then Jupiter with no optical aid
I could just make it out to the upper edge of the bright limb.
Great weather here in Sydney. I stepped out of the office around 4pm, looked up, and there it was. E-mailed several people to get out and take a look too.
I ended up taking my little bino's to work, but it was raining from 3:30pm until about 4:15pm. When I left work about 4:45pm I noticed that the moon and jupiter were out during a break in the clouds, was very strange. Got home at 4:50pm, grabbed the telescope out and managed to get some shots during the cloud breaks. Was so frustrating waiting for the clouds to clear to take shots, most of the ones I took have light cloud in the road.
All pictures were taken between 5:10pm and 5:35pm (a little late) with either my 40mm andrews plossl (yuck) or the GSO 25mm plossl. Camera was my P&S Kodak 4MP taken Afocally (and without the timer feature hence the average image quality). I really need a decent 30mm widefield EP.
I have no idea why the shots turned out so dark, as you can see from the shot of the cloud cover (with the moon just peeking through) it was still quite light. The spider and OTA are visable in some shots, don't know why that happened.
ps. have the img tags been disabled? They dont seem to be working.
I wish I had time to get the tripod out, the images would have turned out 100% better than they did (would have been harder to fight with the clouds though). O well.
I was working on my observatory and missed the closest aproach but took my first shot through the 20cm at 16:30 and a few more after that with telephoto piggy back and a nice group shot of Venus,Saturn, Procyon, Castor and Pollox,but as I only have a film camera the shots will only available next week, finished observing at 21:30 the temp was 8degs, wish there was no moon tonight even though the seeing was pretty poor. astroron
I forgot about the event, but was reading an article a few days back that mentioned you can observe Jupiter during the day. Which I had for the first
time gave it a try. Yesterday I knew Jupiter wasn't far from the moon, I was going lock onto it and whind the RA until I came across it. Well locked onto the moon about 3:30pm and Jupiter was sitting right next to it.
I tried imaging with the LPI but to much wind, so I tried a couple of "Hold the camera up to the ep" trick which wasn't much better. Anyways here are some of the results... the first image is actually the second from the left below, taken about 3:45pm or there abouts with the LPI, the other at about 4:00pm with a canon powershot A85
They were talking about it on the radio as I drove the kids home from school at ~4.30pm. The cloud had cleared by the time we got home and there it was, shining happily next to the moon. I grabbed the binoculars (as the birthday present is still uncomfortably in the box !!!!!) and it looked a treat. The temp at 4.30 was 3.9 degrees and windy so I didn't last long. I had another look just as it was getting dark and I could see the moon, jupiter and 3 of its moons all in the binos FOV, excellent sight.
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