Planet Jupiter next to crescent Moon
 

Go out now and you'll see the planet Jupiter next to the Moon.

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I can see the moon but can't see Jupiter

Its -10 C so it can do one

It's too light now.

I put on a jacket.

We have a pretty decent (£300) telescope, had it for a year but we've only set it up twice :joker:. It takes like 15 minutes to calibrate the thing and the light pollution makes it barely worth it. We did get a good look at Jupiter + it's moons last time though, it's quite fascinating really. With the naked eye it just looks like a bright star... Then you look through the telescope and it's like "OMG that legit is actual Jupiter". It's an odd feeling to be actually observing the physical thing rather than pictures, etc.

We really need to take it next time we go visit my sister (who lives in a lone cottage in the middle of nowhere... Pitch black at night). But usually when we go there it ends up raining :think:.

I like to gaze at Saturn.

I will book you a land - flat there
for your family on and on etc

how nice

Can I reserve a fembot please? One like this

James have you seen uranus?







lol

:hehe:

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sounds amazing.We had a crappy telescope but it was extremely hard to actually see anything.Need to get a good one sometime.

Got ours for th'wifes Christmas, £299 down from about 550 so pretty decent deals available

I can spot Saturn/Jupiter/Venus (that one is easy) by naked eye so I watch them move year round... I had a telescope growing up and every weekend I would look for the planets. So tend to know about what time they would be visible. Particularly Jupiter... the moons move position relatively quickly so it's always a different view. Mars I haven't been able to see, I guess because the local light here is bad even though I knew exactly where it was... MD was even worse as the planetary axis was more towards horizon and being between two metros, the local light was particularly bad

I need to upgrade mine though. I think it's pretty standard aperture. You can make 'em too but not sure I want to go through the hassle... it's not easy from everything I've read and fairly expensive.

First one I ever found (by accident) was Venus. It was close to dusk so it was like a burning white crescent ball... pretty badass. I don't bother with precise calculations and using the measurements... I just load a starmap and go.

Some people say just get a really nice pair of binoculars... a lot easier to find stuff and you will be more inclined to actually use it. I'm not sure what specs as it's been a while since I read up on it.

I might look into that.I probably would be more inclined to pick them up and look more regularly.

Jupiter is right next to the Moon again. Quite a startling sight actually.

Thanks for sharing James I'll take a peek.