Showing posts with label Comet NEAT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comet NEAT. Show all posts

Thursday, May 20, 2004

Comet and Jupiter

Observed comet NEAT (a fuzzy ball) at about 10:45 PM at the north end of Cancer. Found it easily with the binoculars but had to fish to find it with the 90mm telescope at about 85X. A murky sky tonight thanks to the atmosphere and nearby Strongsville, Ohio. Did get a nice view of Jupiter with the scope. I could see the two cloud bands well and the Galilean moons were arranged: * * * O * Well that's pretty much what my handwritten note showed! Sky got worse and time progressed and shut down at only 11 PM.