I saw Jupiter last night. Recently I've pulled out an old telescope and I'm trying to get back in the groove with astronomy. I looked at Jupiter and its 4 main moons several days ago and 3 of the moons were on the left and one on the right.
Last night three were on the right a one on the left. It's interesting to see things actually change. The bands in the middle were plainly visible as well.
Since I moved back into the city limits of Charlotte, the abundance of high pressure sodium lamps has washed out my view of the sky. I am lucky to see the moon.
So, my telescope sits in my dining room...all alone D:
well, i don't have a telescope to look at planets but i like to watch meteor showers. i used to live in vancouver and i once drove two hours away from the city to watch the perseid meteor shower. i lost count of the # of shooting stars after one minute, there were too many.
too bad i wasn't into flashlight at the time. i would have brought a bunch of lights and red filters with me.
i can't see anything nowadays, not only i live in a big city, i now live close to a movie theater that likes to point a huge spotlight up into the sky (to catch ppl's attention i guess). my hs-801 or XRE w/50mm aspherical lens simply can't compete with that monster light. ha ha.