[AZ-Observing] Re: Daytime Saturn Event
- From: brett watson <brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:07:22 -0700
-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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