by Richard Crisp
I ended up looking at M42's Trapezium at 165x, then M46 including that embedded planetary, again at 165x with and without a Lumicon Deep Sky filter (worked well on the planetary for contrast enhancement) and then finally Saturn at 165x and 262x and 339x
Saturn looked pretty cool to me, but could only make out the Cassini division in the rings. I discovered my contact lenses were a bit clouded so I removed one and it looked better: just in time for the clouds to shut me down.
I covered things up at 8pm and called it a night. I looked outside around 10:30 before retiring and saw that it was much clearer but didn't go back out.
Seeing wasn't bad but the transparency left a lot to be desired.
Posted on sf-bay-tac Mar 27, 2006 09:12:47 PT
Converted by report.pm 1.4 Mar 27, 2006 20:57:42 PT
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