bye bye Jupiter

[russ]

Hi all,

Popped out last night to hopefully give the Starmax a shake down. But the skies were pretty bad. Did get a glimpse of Jupiter around 11pm but it wasn't good. By night fall it's getting pretty low. Which means it's stuck in the turbulent atmosphere.

I wonder if its just about time to give up on Jupiter until it's winter return.

Russ

[AJE]

To be honest Russ your probably right. There is very little point in wasting time on an object that you know is going o be Rubbish. All it does is put you in a bad mood - or at least it does me!!!

You'll just have top wait for Mars - currently rising at 1am - won't be long now. Or theres Uranus which rises at 00.23am or neptune which risesat 23.30pm (although these are both fairly low in the sku -8 & -15 respectively).

I haven't even looked at Jupiter once this time round!

[OXO]

Hi Russ, Lb

Jupiter at 11.00 go's behind a telegrapth Pole then into some tree's from there into the Irish Sea!Splash..............

I viewed Jupiter about 3 week's ago and it was like looking at the sea,seeing was really bad as jupiter is so low now..

James

[Rob]

Yep!. I agree chaps.

Never mind, as mentioned by LB a number of targets are working their why around. Anyway its time for those hot t-shirt only viewing nights when you can enjoy globular's... and one of my fave summer targets - M57!!.

Rob

[AndyMac]

Yes why waste time on an object that needs good seeing to view well & not be stuck in the murk & turbulance of our lower atmosphere.

Mars is the object to watch over the next few months.