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chasing the outer lowly moons


nytecam

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Currently all the outer planets Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto skim the east to SW horizon before midnight and last night I manage two in Saturn and Neptune and their moons as below before cloud closed in the sky.  If I'd have checked I could have caught Uranus due east and maybe Pluto due south but by then I'd closed the obsy so next time.

Saturn's Hyperion proved a challenge but tracked down to a faint 'star' forming a neat 'double' absent from Sloan DSS.  Note the distorted oval of Neptune due to atmospheric refraction at low altitude!

Used my Meade LX200 30cm f/3.6 SCT + SX Lodestar-Mx2 + LodestarLive s/ware in 10s and 5s single exposures :police:

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Thanks guys for your interest and suport :laugh:   Last night did a repeat under cloudless but hazy skies LVM ~2.5- 3 here in London but no barrier to my camera in very brief exposures ! All four objects - Saturn, Pluto, Neptune and Uranus hugged the SW to eastern horizon at low altitude so dodging trees/bushes etc necessary!

The outer planet's moons conspired to hide under their 'mum's skirt' but got for 1st time this year Pluto in Sagittarius IDed via Wikisky/Sloan DSS.  Again used my obsy Meade 30cm LX200 f/3.6 SCT+SX Lodestar-Mx2 camera+LodestarLive v0.10 [latter for 1st time - well done Paul]  :police:

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