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Daytime Planetary Observing...?

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geppetto

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Would that be accurate enough

Should get you close Greg.

Another way would be to centre on the sun or moon if it's up and set your RA/DEC circles

then sweep over to the planet coordinates.

Worth doing, I've viewed Jupiter many times at daylight, great fun :rolleyes:

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Kai

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No the Sun isnt included.

What i did was to use Starry Nights to give me the Ra/Dec and move the mount until the display on the handset matched Starry Nights.Then i fine tuned the mount until the Sun was in the center of the eyepiece.

Then moved the mount by the handset until it matched the Ra/Dec but was looking through the finder until i spotted Venus.

A bit of a bodge way of doing it ,but hey it worked :rolleyes:

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Little bit off topic but....When I got up at 7am today (Bl00dy kids) I noticed Jupiter was shining nince and bright in the dawn sunlight. Got the 'scope setup but I could not get focus on Jupiter with anything under (or over?) a 12.5mmEP. Was this just due to the early morning Sun causing air curents etc, or maybe as Jupiter is still too low?

Just a bit worrying as I was playing about with collimation the other day :rolleyes:

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7am? lightweight hehe, I was up at 5am with my daughter grrrrrrr

Anyway.... the moon was nice and bright and the sky was clear as a bell. Best night i've seen in some time. Saturn had a quick peek but only for 30 mins as it was blumming cold! Daytime viewing is the way forward im sure!

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7am? lightweight hehe, I was up at 5am with my daughter grrrrrrr

5.30am for me! Fantastic sunrise this morning....The way I look at it ..You get more "Value" Out of the day!

Anybody up for a M42 taken in the daytime.

I will stump up a bottle of plonk for the first one who manages it

A bottle of Mertlot ...Per chance :wink:

The gloves are off.. :rolleyes:

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Astroman

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No the Sun isnt included.

What i did was to use Starry Nights to give me the Ra/Dec and move the mount until the display on the handset matched Starry Nights.Then i fine tuned the mount until the Sun was in the center of the eyepiece.

Then moved the mount by the handset until it matched the Ra/Dec but was looking through the finder until i spotted Venus.

A bit of a bodge way of doing it ,but hey it worked :rolleyes:

This is exactly the method I've used to observe all 6 unaided eye planets, as well as many first magnitude stars, in broad daylight. Nothing bodge about it! I generally have located Jupiter before sunset at Grand Canyon doing this before the compuer GOTO guys can find the Sun. 8) Knowing the exact time makes this more accurate, too.

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