callisto about to transit

[mdstuart]

Nicks old 130p heritage scope out cooling ready for Callistos transit such starts in 30 mins...

Might try Mars as well.

Mark

[GavStar]

Unfortunately really poor seeing where I am. Jupiter boiling even at 90x and Mars even worse. Have just seen something shoot past Jupiter quickly though which was nice. Am going to have a think about what to look at next but it won't be a planet.

[Davey-T]

2 minutes ago, Gavster said:

Unfortunately really poor seeing where I am. Jupiter boiling even at 90x and Mars even worse. Have just seen something shoot past Jupiter quickly though which was nice. Am going to have a think about what to look at next but it won't be a planet.

That'll be the Moon then, same terrible seeing here, not sure if it was Mars or someone juggling an orange

Dave

[Pete Presland]

Yep pretty woeful here as well, just waiting for Mars to clear the conifers!

[Stu]

Had a brief look earlier but no good here so came to bed!

[Helen]

  seeing not bad really here...

Helen

PS just realised I missed my very small Mars window (chain saw anyone???)

[Pete Presland]

1 minute ago, Helen said:

  seeing not bad really here...

Helen

PS just realised I missed my very small Mars window (chain saw anyone???)

Good looking image With the transit clearly visible.  My window is still half an hour away! 

[Helen]

Thanks Pete, I was quite pleased with it as I'm pretty sure my collimation is way out and I'm too tired to risk that tonight!!

H

[mdstuart]

I viewed it visually. Very tough to pick out that little black dot.

I was using a 4.7 mm eyepiece in a Heritage newt.

The dot whizzed a cross the disk. Not a long eclipse for those on Jupiter!

Mark