Re: Neptune occultation tonight
Awesome catch. Thanks for sharing.
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Mel
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#57275
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Fw: Mars retrograde
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jimcoble2000
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#57274
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Mars size
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jimcoble2000
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#57273
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Mars
Mars currently is 10 arc seconds in diameter. Enough to start to work. By the end of December it will be 14 arc seconds, a bit short of almost 50% more in size. That should be more than enough to get
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jimcoble2000
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#57272
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Re: Moon Dog Last Night
Excellent shot Ian. Like those ice crystals in the atmosphere. Not too often you see a full circle as well defined as that.
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jimcoble2000
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#57271
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Re: Moon Dog Last Night
Cool! We got the clouds but not the dog.
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Roy Diffrient
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#57270
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Moon Dog Last Night
Quite a nice moon dog last night here. Moon Dog 111324 ( https://ianstewart.zenfolio.com/p430591459/h18469ab#h18469ab )
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Ian Stewart
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#57269
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Re: Moon Last Night
Quite bright last night. I did get in a little time on it but seeing was only 7 out of 10. Good moments but you had to work for it. I was tired after my inventory of the? planets so had to work up a
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jimcoble2000
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#57268
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Moon Last Night
Nice view of Mare Humorum and Gassendi last night. Can't see it in the picture but at 400x the Rilles in Gassendi were visible. Moon 111224 (
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Ian Stewart
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#57267
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The moon vs Neptune
The moon is a mere 8 million times brighter
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Kent Blackwell
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#57266
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Re: Planetary hat trick
So typical of Vixen. I agree maybe an alt az would do bit better as far as flexibility but I sure am glad mercury stayed where it was in the eyepiece. If it was moving I am not sure if I could track
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jimcoble2000
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#57265
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Planetary hat trick
Just finished an inventory of the solar system started last night at 8 and then finishing just now with Venus and Mercury daytime sightings. Venus is fairly easy to see during the daytime with a
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jimcoble2000
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#57264
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Re: Neptune occultation tonight
That was a wide brightness gap. I have to laugh as the FOV in the picture makes Neptune look on this side of the moon. We are in for a surprise in that case. It is either a lot smaller than advertised
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jimcoble2000
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#57263
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Observing Monday Night
It was fun last night looking at tight double stars in my refractor, but the highlight of the night was seeing the moon occult Neptune. List: 24/11/11 Takahashi TOA 150 HD 23177 (Double Star in
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Kent Blackwell
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#57262
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Re: Neptune occultation tonight
Nice shot, Gabriel. Sometimes afocal photography works best with such wide variable brightnesses objects such as the moon and Neptune.
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Kent Blackwell
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#57261
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Re: Neptune occultation tonight
250,000 miles for the moon compared to 2.7 billion for Neptune. Most of us don't really comprehend large numbers since we have never seen a billion of anything. So a good analogy is: 1 Million
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jimcoble2000
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#57260
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Re: Neptune occultation tonight
Nice shot given the huge brightness difference! I followed Neptune at 187X (5mm ep, 127mm f/7.5 refractor) until it suddenly disappeared at about 9:10. Good illustration of the scale of the solar
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Roy Diffrient
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#57259
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Neptune occultation tonight
Set up the 10¡± Dobsonian to catch the event about ten minutes before it started. This is a photo I took through the eyepiece about two minutes before Neptune blinked out of view. Really shows the
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Gabriel Dandrade
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#57258
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Moon occults Neptune tonight around
9:10??? or?? 2110 EST Should be good. Navigation no problem
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jimcoble2000
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#57257
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Re: Starting observation season of Mars tonight. Campaign 2024/5
If you get a chance to see Hellas on Mars in the coming days it is one of the largest craters in the solar system and that's saying something. 23,465 feet deep. It looks like a large, circular.
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jimcoble2000
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#57256
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