This session was devoted to lunar observing. IWLOP objects were completed and Mars and Saturn were observed.
Lunar Phase: Waxing Gibbous (59.6%)
Q-Day: -1
Moonrise: 3:17 PM
Sunrise: 7:02 AM Sunset: 7:28 PM
Location: Home
Date: 2018-09-17
Time: 7:30 PM - 10:45 PM ADT
Equipment: 10" Meade SCT, 10 mm eyepiece (+ x2 Barlow)
Magnification: x250
Transparency: Good (3)
Seeing: Fair (2)
Temperature: 24º C
SQM: 17.58 - 19.11
My main objective was to check off more items from the RASC Explore the Moon (Telescope). In doing so, it meant I cold also observe several IWLOP objects:
- IWLOP #068: Montes Alpes & Vallis Alpes
- ILWOP #069: Aristillus & Autolycus
- IWLOP #071: Walther (Walter before 1979)
- IWLOP #073: Regiomontanus & Purbach
- IWLOP #074: Arzachel, and
- IWLOP #075: Ptolemaeus & Purbach.
I also took some time to locate two planets:
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Saturn Viewed Saturn west of the Moon in the southern sky. Able to see the planet and one of its moons (Titan). The rings were clearly visible as well. |
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Mars Visually, Mars twinkled slightly. Using the telescope with the x2 Barlow with seeing that was not the greatest meant I had a blurred view of the planet. However, I catch sight of the northern polar cap occasionally. |