cosmic dave Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Cheers Mark that was a good evenings viewing, the scope seemed to work well but for me saturn stole the show at the end of the night. Hope we can do it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Agreed, Saturn was beautiful and Mars was looking good too. The Moon was showing some nice detail. Even though there was a bright crescent moon, we could still see masses of stars and i easily found M3 and the Leo triplet in my scope. Just waiting till i have time to process my images from last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbird Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Glad you had a good night, I'm sorry I couldn't make it. It was Rosie's operation today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic dave Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 Everything ok paul ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbird Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Thanks Dave, all OK, Rosie's a bit tender but is resting now. I couldn't have made it last night anyway, I was too tired. I did a bit of observing early on, Jupiter's GRS was showing well and I saw some nice detail on Mars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic dave Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 We noticed the grs aswell, mark said he could make out some sort of cannal network on mars, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 We noticed the grs aswell, mark said he could make out some sort of cannal network on mars, lol Maybe after a few beers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbird Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I vaguely remember having an astronomy book, when I was about 9 or 10, which had a picture of Mars with canals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Sorry to hear about Rosie, hope all is well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Daves scope performs so much better now that he has installed motor drives. No more faffing with manual controls. Mars and Jupiter were both showing good detail in his new refractor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic dave Posted March 29, 2012 Author Share Posted March 29, 2012 It was loads better wasn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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