Great Night Tonight

[Startracker197]

Started off the night looking at Venus before it disapeared and it looked like the clouds were gonna cover the entire sky and the night was over.... but I saw a gap near Jupiter and decided to view it a little.... not long after that I looked up and noticed that the clouds had dissapated and the sky was clear... Giving the glory for that to God..... so I decided to stay out..... I was out there for five hours.

I view Jupiter which looked great tonight... used my new moon filter and it actually got me detail in the lower mags though the higher mags dont get as much light I guess so I went back to lower..... After that I took a gander at Capella.... Then I found what stellaranium says is a cluster looking thing of Nebulas.... and that was real nice.... went back to Capella and saw a meteor flash by... looked back at jupiter only to be greeted by another meteor.... and then of course thought I saw one behind Jupiter.... but I already posted that..... Went back to that Nebula Cluster and stared for the longest time.... finished it off with the moon through my Moon filter and observed a few craters and some mountain range. Overall my first real night of telescoping....

[Ags]

Sound like you had a productive night! I prefer to up the magnification on Jupiter so that no filter is required to dim the view. But that only works with smaller scopes.

[Startracker197]

I cant really go past 160 mag on my telescope cause it craps the image.... though ill be getting a much larger dob for Christmas which is gonna be awesome..... I just saw Mercury and Venus.... ill be looked for andromeda tonight and maybe Uranus

[Rapallokid]

Also try for the Orion Nebula, I saw it for the first time last night and it was awsome. I was using a nexstar 6 and it gave good views.