Post by timothy on Feb 18, 2005 0:23:27 GMT -6
Did anybody see the moon right in the middle of all the winter constellations. It was really awsome.
Started looking for my daughters star tonight thanks to the detailed map from Oscar in the question and answer board. While I was looking in that area I came across a cluster of 5 stars that are very close to each other, 2 of them are exstreamly close. Check it out, it's pretty cool.
Then I went to the moon. With the numbers high in the seeing and transparency department the views held up very well at 300x in my 5" newt. I finally identified Plato, the way the sun was hitting the NW wall it looked like plato was pouring out milk into the Mare Imbrium. Montes Alpes, Pico,Piton, Montes Caucasus and Apenninus were all jumping out at me.The crater Autolycus looks like a smaller version of Plato with the smooth dark lava filled floor. Hey I just realized I saw the Cassini crater.
I think I've just been hooked onto the lunar 100
Started looking for my daughters star tonight thanks to the detailed map from Oscar in the question and answer board. While I was looking in that area I came across a cluster of 5 stars that are very close to each other, 2 of them are exstreamly close. Check it out, it's pretty cool.
Then I went to the moon. With the numbers high in the seeing and transparency department the views held up very well at 300x in my 5" newt. I finally identified Plato, the way the sun was hitting the NW wall it looked like plato was pouring out milk into the Mare Imbrium. Montes Alpes, Pico,Piton, Montes Caucasus and Apenninus were all jumping out at me.The crater Autolycus looks like a smaller version of Plato with the smooth dark lava filled floor. Hey I just realized I saw the Cassini crater.
I think I've just been hooked onto the lunar 100
