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Venus (Planet)
Observer: lyle ellis (e-mail: babyandromeda@webtv.net)
Instrument: 80-mm refractor Location: klamath falls, Oregon, U.S.A
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Wed Nov 22 23:48:00 2000 UT Obs. no.: 540
Tonight the first object I decided to bag was Venus. Which at this time was right above the western horizon. As I peered through the SMA 25mm eyepiece I could not descern the cresent shape of the planet. It looked rather like a star, giving off majestic colors, like pearl white blue, and some tints of red. Bumping up the power with the H12.5mm eyepiece yeilded a power of 72x. Yet still could not resolve the cresent. Looking like a star though, still this was mainly caused by the denser atmosphere I was looking through. Knowing it probably will not help, I decided to pop in the 5mm Plossl, and only giving a more spectacular color display. Red, Green and Yellow were all the colors that were evident. Still no cresent, just a star looking object, but at least I tred. Giving up on Venus I turned my attention to the andromeda galaxy. In the 25mm eyepiece it looks like a faint fuzzy patch , or globular cluster, with the nucleus easily visable. With direct vision almost fades out, but with inverted vision the features I described were pretty visual. Tonight I am not going to push the magnifacation any further. CLEAR SKYS
Jupiter (Planet, est. to be in Orion)
Observer: lyle ellis (e-mail: babyandromeda@webtv.net)
Instrument: 80-mm refractor Location: klamath falls, Oregon, U.S.A
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Wed Nov 22 02:30:00 2000 UT Obs. no.: 540
Tonights sky was good, with slight turbulence in short intervals. I first turned my attention to jupiter. I put in my 25mm, which yielded a magnifacation of 36x. I could easly distinguish two large cloud bands bands near the equator of the planet, they both looked pale brown in color. I also could see 3 satellites. 2 on the western side, and 1 on the eastern side. Then I put in the 12.5mm, basically the same image. The planet was quite more turbulent though. Just for experementation I put a lunar filter over the 12.5mm, and wow! It gave me much more contrast, yielding alot more definition to the planet. Next I turned my attention to saturn. Using the 25mm the ring structure was easily destinguishable. I switched to the 12.5mm. Half way up up from the equator. I thought I was seeing a cloud structure, or bands. But was not sure, so I decided to put in the 5mm, yeilding a magnifacation of 186x. And sure enough I could see a faint cloud band near the top of the planet. clear skys!!!
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