Re: A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Alan C
Thanks for sharing. How wonderful for your young daughter. Alan C On 21-Dec-20 06:55 PM, Igor PDML-StR wrote: Yesterday, when we finally set our lights outside of the house, - I saw a neighbor setting his telescope - 2 houses down from us. Remembering your heads-up about the celestial

Re: A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Well Done! You have several with both the rings of Saturn and three moons of Jupiter quite visible! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 4:06 AM Larry Colen wrote: > I had a little better luck with the planets

Re: A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Rick Womer
Very neat, Igor! Living in the middle of a big city, the ambient light makes star-gazing futile. Rick > On Dec 21, 2020, at 11:55 AM, Igor PDML-StR wrote: > > > > Yesterday, when we finally set our lights outside of the house, - I saw a > neighbor setting his telescope - 2 houses down from

Re: A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Yesterday, when we finally set our lights outside of the house, - I saw a neighbor setting his telescope - 2 houses down from us. Remembering your heads-up about the celestial event [*], and having seen the two planets close to each other last night with the naked eye, - I suggested my

Re: A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Alan C
Indeed you can. Well done. Tonight is the night! Alan C On 21-Dec-20 11:05 AM, Larry Colen wrote: I had a little better luck with the planets tonight, this is my best, you can actually see Saturn’s rings without squinting too hard

Re: A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Bob Pdml
Very impressive. I looked for it yesterday but there was too much cloud low on the horizon. I’ll look again today, but right at the moment it’s raining heavily and looks set to continue all day. I’ve never seen the rings of Saturn but hopefully with binoculars I may be able to. I won’t try and

Re: A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Toine
Wow! On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, 10:06 Larry Colen, wrote: > I had a little better luck with the planets tonight, this is my best, you > can actually see Saturn’s rings without squinting too hard > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50743174936/in/album-72157717440959336/ > > Pentax K-1 with

A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Larry Colen
I had a little better luck with the planets tonight, this is my best, you can actually see Saturn’s rings without squinting too hard https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50743174936/in/album-72157717440959336/ Pentax K-1 with adaptall 300/2.8 + 2x teleconverter ISO 400 1/100 second full album