[AZ-Observing] Planets tonight

I did see some Arizona sky tonight, honest.
 
Steve Coe
 
Backyard Obs. Phoenix, Az
9.25 inch f/10 Celestron SCT
 
Seeing=5-6  Full Moon
 
Feb 23, 2005
My last day at DeVry as a full time employee.
 
The ASGT mount is working very well.
 
Jupiter with the 10mm Lanthanum eyepiece is very good, even though it is
only up about 30 degrees.  The GRS is near the meridian and it a light
brown color.  There are about 5 other bands across the face of Jupiter,
including a very thin band right at the equator.  Adding the light blue
filter brings out the banding with more contrast and with averted vision
there is some mottled detail with the two main equatorial band, NEB and
SEB.
 
Saturn with the same eyepiece provides a great view, even in mediocre
seeing.  There is some banding on the ball of Saturn with a dark polar
cap.  Three satellites form a 30-60-90 triangle just off one ring tip.
Fascinating to know that a satellite from here is going around another
world that I can see from my backyard.
 
A nice break in all the rain that Central Arizona has been having.

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