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[patrickm]

Headed down there shortly with a brief dinner break and then more about 7pm. Let me know if you wanna meet up. I'll IM you my cell #. Company would be fun.

[Paulie pchris00]

Woke up a little too late, and had to stay local. Would have been fun, but conditions started deteriorating about a half hour after I went out. Was workable, but headed out for coffee around 8.

[patrickm]

I stayed out until 8:45. Hung out with Luna for a few minutes before dinner and then all Jupiter at 53x for the last hour. Even with one streetlight out, the one on the corner is pretty intrusive with no tree leaves to block it. May have to find another option.

With the scope assembled, it's too bulky to walk more than about a half block with my camera case and chair over my back. I make a lousy pack mule.

My Televue lenses are too heavy without the tension bands correctly installed, which I guess they weren't. I also couldn't see out of my 8mm TV near zenith. Not really sure what's up with that. A 1.25" Barlow would have helped. The seeing was terrible. This left me with 24mm Panotic.

Need a proper stool. Not used to the Dobsonian Stoop yet.

No visitors.

That is all.

[patrickm]

Callisto, Ganymede, Jupiter, Io, Europa (l-r) at 52x mag. Sumerian Optics 10" f/4.5, 24mm Panoptic, iPhone. Clouds.

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[Paulie pchris00]

Dec 29, 2011 22:17:11 GMT -6 patrickm said:

Callisto, Ganymede, Jupiter, Io, Europa (l-r) at 52x mag. Sumerian Optics 10" f/4.5, 24mm Panoptic, iPhone. Clouds.

Time? When I looked about 7 PM CST, I saw only three satellites. I suspect Io was missing then.

[patrickm]

About 20:15-20:30. I took a bunch between thick clouds. Not sure which one this one is, but I think all four were visible from 20:00 on. I'll know when I dump them into the computer.

[Paulie pchris00]

Was just curious. That estimate cuts me enough leeway that I don't suck observing my favorite system, since I only saw three.