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Jupiter (Planet)
Observer: Bob K (e-mail: rkroner@na2.ml.com)
Instrument: 6-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Milford, NJ
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Mar 2 00:00:00 1999 UT Obs. no.: 445
Recently returned to astronomy after a long layoff so started with the obvious observation targets. Jupiter, low to the horizon, was hampered by only fair seeing (and tube currents in my scope) but even so had moments of wonderful cloud detail even without a filter at 100x. Main impact of tube currents was some ghosting. Venus was too bright without a filter to look like much of anything. Saturn, higher in the sky, was the best of the three. By the time I targeted it, my tube currents had settled and the seeing was slightly better. Good cloud detail and a surprising number of moons (4-5 I think). Actually jacked up the power to 240x (just below by theoretical max) and still had good detail.
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