Had a great nights observing the Moon tonight with the 8" SCT, seeing very crisp Spent some time on Aristarchus area, with the rilles and craters in high mag very interesting.
The only drawback to the nights observing was the image in the eyepiece is reversed to the photo's and chartsother than that a thoroughly enjoyable nights observing.
Also had a look at Jupiter for a while
The only drawback to the nights observing was the image in the eyepiece is reversed to the photo's and charts
Agreed! Argghh!! I know that some people will complain about me complaining, but I'm with you! It'd be great if some chart publisher up there in the Northern Hemisphere came up with a large A3 chart with 4 pages - one for each possible orientation depending on whether you flip your images vertically, horizontally or both - which essentially boils down to which scope your using that night.
Secondly, if someone could just flip the moon itself for us down here in the south it'd make it all a heap easier.
Yes Ed, the only problem is getting some decent night skyes, when the sky is clear the MOON is nice and BRIGHT when it is nice and Dark it is CLOUDY. Go Figure
other than that a thoroughly enjoyable nights observing.
when it is nice and Dark it is CLOUDY.
