[AZ-Observing] Re: Daytime Saturn Event

-On Wednesday, February 20, 2002 9:34 AM -0700 jack.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
wrote:

>
> Get out your telescopes this afternoon. Saturn is occulted by the Moon
> once again, this time in clear skies, at 4:17pm and reappearing at 5:20pm
> for Phoenix, times according to S&T website.

wow, this is very cool!  saturn is easily visible and the rings are almost 
full-on!  i'm really excited to see if saturns brightens at all as it 
disappears.  only about 15 minutes left.  i'm viewing at 75x with a nagler 
type II on an 8" orion dob with dob driver II for tracking.  i tried 
pushing to 150x but saturn is pretty much washed out at that magnification.

anyone that doesn't have a scope to setup easily could try binocs, although 
not sure if saturn would be visible or not.

-b
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