A nice afternoon's planetary observing...

[ollypenrice]

With a couple of our guests I did a bit of Jupiter watching this afternoon. It was a very hot sunny day with a lovely clear blue sky and Jupiter was at a nice high altitude so we watched the transit of Callisto's shadow well clear of the equatorial belts, which were showing that classic brick red colour. A 26 Nagler gave a good high power for a comfortable view.

Go on, ask me!! How did we do it?

 lly

[dweller25]

How did you do that ?

[Mike73]

Yep I'd like to know aswell??

[jambouk]

Remote telescope?

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[ollypenrice]

Remote telescope?

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Remote? Certainly not! A nice view at the eyepîece!!

lly

[jambouk]

Solar eclipse?

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[Mike73]

Some kind of weird and wonderful filter???

[Moonshane]

goto?

[RichM63]

Congrats' on the weather Olly, up here mine is still crud.

[scarp15]

Was Jupiter 90 degrees away form the Sun, creating a little bit more dark sky background and was the lunar crescent visible to provide a bearing? 

[NGC1023]

Go on, ask me!! How did we do it?

"Manual go-to", i.e. old-fashioned use of setting circles?  And perhaps a polarizing filter, to darken the blue sky background. If not high mag itself makes the sky surrounding the planetary disk dark enough . . .

[ollypenrice]

Something to do with aperture. Marc, my fellow astro-provider, rather better endowed financially than I am, has a moderately large device at his disposal... http://a404.idata.over-blog.com/4/15/06/42/DSCN7169.JPG

Darned impressive!!!

Olly

[jambouk]

Nice. What size and parameters is it?

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[ollypenrice]

Nice. What size and parameters is it?

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0.8 metre RC, alt az, direct drive with field derotator. It's a fully professional instrument. Six million Euros. Gulp.

Olly

[Zakalwe]

What a beast of a thing!

[RichM63]

Wow, Marc is an amateur?

Great looking bit of kit, lucky you that you get to use it.

Hope you didn't forget to remove your Nagler.

[jambouk]

Lovely

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[Moonshane]

Something to do with aperture. Marc, my fellow astro-provider, rather better endowed financially than I am, has a moderately large device at his disposal... http://a404.idata.over-blog.com/4/15/06/42/DSCN7169.JPG

Darned impressive!!!

Olly

it must be one of the most beautiful scopes I have ever seen. trully stunning (even though it's red)

[ollypenrice]

Wow, Marc is an amateur?

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No, he's a professional provider on a far larger scale than I am. The instrument had public funding as well.

Olly

[ollypenrice]

it must be one of the most beautiful scopes I have ever seen. trully stunning (even though it's red)

Odd, this, but in the flesh (the considerable flesh!!) it's orange.

Olly

[Moonshane]

Odd, this, but in the flesh (the considerable flesh!!) it's orange.

Olly

in that case ignore the bracketed comment above!

[ollypenrice]

in that case ignore the bracketed comment above!

Awe, but our own piddling half metre Sir Isaac is red; http://www.sunstarfrance.com/images/photos/astronomy/astron10_400.jpg

'Es luuvly!!!!

Olly

[Moonshane]

In a case like that I'd make an exception to my red aversion LOL

[ollypenrice]

In a case like that I'd make an exception to my red aversion LOL

Phew!

Olly

[Moonshane]

ha ha

maybe one day......maybe one day.....