at 05:30. I looked out and it was the perfect starry night
. Low light pollution
and not windy
...so minimal wind-chill. Temp was around freezing or slightly below. Got the Dobsonian
together really fast and went out. Saturn
was the best to date you could make out the shadows of the rings on the planet. It was too late for deep sky
work as dawn was breaking an earlier start would have provided spectacular views. However I did not go to bed until 01:30 hoping for early clear skies which never came.I stopped looking at Saturn
and when I pulled back the ISS
was gliding
silently overhead too fast to get the scope on and eyepieces
changed. Observing with the eye revealed a little detail you could just start to tell the shape. Very bright and very cool to see it gliding across the sky. This was not the only bright object a view East revealed the moon
and Venus
very bright and directly above the moon. unfortunately viewing East is blocked by the house so getting the scope to look here is not practical.Here are some unprocessed shots taken this morning.
Saturn
is the second largest planet
and is about 170,000,000 miles away from Earth
. So not a bad picture considering the distance.
is the second largest planet and is about 170,000,000 miles away from Earth. So not a bad picture considering the distance.
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