I can talk the, um, mouth sounds, but can I stroll the amble? Well, kinda…
I did indeed get out early this morning in pursuit of Jupiter and the moon and all that, but I never had time to get the telescope up to speed, between two days of rain/overcast and being gone all day yesterday, too exhausted after that to start driving my frustration up with the ‘scope. So I simply went out at
Coming up on October 6th at roughly 08:15 UTC (which translates to 4:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time,) the crescent moon will occult Jupiter – for once, a nice target for an occultation, since it’s a planet and, at decent magnification, has both a shape and detail. Note that this is for North America and may not occur (or be hidden below the horizon) for many
You know when I mentioned earlier that not a lot of things were going right? Yeah, still at it.
We’ll start with a photo outing with Mr Bugg, intended to chase birds and the sunset, though I already suspected the sunset wouldn’t be too fascinating, since the sky was completely free of clouds. We had several good passes from vultures and osprey, but for reasons unknown, the autofocus on
