by Chuck
May 11, 2012
Astronomy Observation Record
| Date: 5-10-2012 |
Time: 9:00 p.m. |
Location: Brambly Hill |
| Instrument: Northstar |
Aperture: 76mm |
Focal length: 700mm |
| Eyepiece/Magnification: 32/22 17/41 13/ 8/ |
| Transparency: |
Seeing: |
| Conditions: Cold |
| Object |
Notes |
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Venus
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Venus is usually visible when I set the scope up, so tonight I indulge myself with a glance as I set up. The crescent is getting smaller, but is quite easy to resolve. There was some blur to the air tonight.
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Saturn
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The main reason for heading out tonight. The rings stood out clear and bright though there is little tilt to them right now. After half an hour of looking I started to see a suggestion of banding at high power. I wasn't able to keep the planet in the field of view long enough to take a good look.
Katie came out and joined me for a while. She agreed that the view was worth the time.
After Katie went in I tried some experiments with the Northstar system. I was never able to get the system to align, but I did find that using the hand controller I was able to keep objects centered with better accuracy. Unfortunately, by the time I figured this out Saturn was behind a tree.
I headed in at 11:00, really about the time viewing was getting good. But I was cold and out of the things that I could find in the sky.
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