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Compiled viewing reports with 10" Lukehurst Dobsonian

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Welcome All

By starting this blog at least my previous written observations can be pulled together with my future ones. This makes good sense as I am quite forgetful at using my notepad at the telescope (despite having one packed in with my astro gear). This may be down to not wanting to leave the eyepiece for long or concentrate on more than a few things at once, for whatever reason it seems sensible for a digital record here, where paper pages don't get warped and discoloured by dew and dust in the dar

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A few new Targets Including the Magnificent Saturn

Finally the skies cleared at an opportunistic time for me 17/05/14. Of coarse by dark at this time of year Jupiter was heading downwards already and Mars was climbing for viewing, but the wait was still on for Saturn to peep up above the rooftops. In the meanwhile M13 looked stunning as usual. Jupiter's red spot and banding was impressive, the tricky Mars was even playing ball giving some surface detail. I managed to hunt the ring nebula down in Lyra pretty quickly at x 50 in the lovely 4.5 inch

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Jupiter & Orion's Nebula

Target: Jupiter (20 min before sunset & into darkness). My eye was stuck to the eyepiece with my mouth stuck for words. The planet resolved to a disc that I could naively describe as a very carefully painted marble, it was suspended prominently against the steadily darkening clear blue sky. The surface detail was mesmerizing, and the apparent number of definable colors. Consciously I noted shades of cream, orange, brown, grey and mild looking purples. I forced myself to count the number

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Unsteady seeing on the Gower

I was really happy to get out the City & do some observing on the Gower at the weekend. Between the thin clouds I got some decent viewing in. However the seeing was not exactly pristine ! To clarify further on the points made on observing color in the Orion Nebula. I found no detection of color viewing this object under much darker skies (compared to a previous account in a light polluted area). However contrast was markedly improved and therefore the extent of the structure was more pleasin

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M13 et al

Tested the seeing on Jupiter and noticed a lack of sharp details. Banding and hints of surface detail were there but no moments of stillness allowed me to get my eye in deeper and waiting for the finer details tonight was a no no. Next I turned to Mars, more so that I can mentally note changes as this planet becomes more favourable to view over the coming months. I had only previously glimpsed Mars a few times before with my new setup, and the disk has always presented itself as uniform in col

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Inspired Jupiter session

Yesterday afternoon reading the thread 'To get better views of Mars with a 250px.. New Barlow or Eyepiece?' highlighted the need to concentrate an observation session on one object in order to really see those moments of exceptional seeing. I took advantage of an unexpected clear sky last night where transparency seemed very good for the city. So with NO sky surfing on the agenda I set up and got comfortable for a few hours. The seeing varied in extremes, sometimes swinging suddenly back and for

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