What a morning!
- From: "Zarkovic" <zarkovic@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:45:07 GMT
Hey guys, been a while since I posted anything at all, but it's hard to find
time between university and other activities to do any observing or posting
and the only available time to observe seems to be on Friday nights to
Saturday mornings or Saturday nights to Sunday mornings.Anyhow, this morning
I got up around 6:30, bundled up and ready to go, just in front of my house
to see Saturn, I have been dying to see it for the first time ever though a
scope. Anyhow, I found the great Orion and about east from it, there was
this bright object, which I thought was Saturn. So I go in with my 25mm and
see what's up and just a bring, turbulent bluish light hitting me. So I put
in my 6mm to use and all I got was this dancing pollen like structure in
blue color. So I was disappointed, cause I didn't see the ring and the
object would not focus good at all, just dancing in the eyepiece, which lead
me to believe I needed to collimate again, which would have sucked. Quickly,
I fire up Starry Night Pro and realize that it was Proycon I was looking at,
so I was super relieved. Just a bit north from it, I think there was Sirius
and Saturn was east of these two. Still using my 6mm and telrad, I find it
and it was just simply amazing. I can't believe how great an image it was,
very stable, and right after the dark band surrounding the planet, rings!!!
Aww, what a sight! So I knew my scope was focused really good, so I pointed
to Mars, which was west of all these. Mars was a surprise too. Even though I
saw it before, it was never this big and it was simply great surprise! Is
there a thing as too much focus, where the image get actually smaller than
it should be, cause this is what I think happened to my Mars images from
before. I didn't know exactly what I should expect, so all I ever got was
this orange dot, with rare brownish features. But this morning, it was like
7 or 8mm across, which was simply amazing. Also saw M 42, always so nice to
look at, gives me some sort of greenish, greyish glow, but I wish my eye
could pick up some red one day, with some big scope or something. Anyhow,
this was just my morning, what a great relive and relaxation time, and Sun
was getting ready to rise as all these beautiful spatial objects were
setting. Of course the Moon was up there overhead too, again, whichever
magnification I use on it, there is something that always amazes me about
that object. Well friends, I am off to a soccer tournament, but wow, thank
you for all your help during my purchase of a scope and hope you too have
some great nights as well. As usual, clear skies and take it from me, bring
some gloves as well.
.
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