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Subject: Re: [M]: RE: RE: 2nd light with 10in lx200 YAHOOOOOO!!!!
From: John Oliver
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Thu May 31 15:39:49 2001
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Bill Arnett wrote:
> >... looking at Venus or Jupiter during the daytime...
>
> Venus is easy but Jupiter is not. Unless you have a really deep blue
> sky Jupiter isn't bright enough to stand out much. I've done it but
> only with careful alignment on Venus or the Moon.
>
> Bright stars during the daytime are possible, too
>
>
>> > with the moon like stadium lights
>
>
> then look at the Moon! You can spend a lifetime observing details
> there. And the view is never quite the same twice: as the sun angle
> changes the shadows things look very different!
>
> --
> Bill Arnett
> http://nineplanets.org/ 37 27 38 N 122 16 11 W
We used Canopus for SPOT (South Pole Optical Telescope) ... pretty easy
except when there was a lot of blowing snow.
--
John Oliver
Department of Astronomy
University of Florida
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