August 30, 2008

Total Eclipse (on Jupiter)

Tonight (Friday the 29th) my kids and I caught Io's shadow marching across Jupiter. Very cool. Jupiter was a sight tonight, with bands, festoons, and moons. Also, the 100mm f/6 split Epsilon Lyrae very cleanly, with black sky in between each of the two pairs, at 120x. The sky was full of water vapor tonight, but it did not seem to make detail less visible.

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