Astronomy – what astronomy?
Posted by dizzyjim on January 19, 2009
It is many months since I last used the telescope. We had week after week of cloud last year followed by several weeks of below freezing night temperatures. It is difficult to get motivated when, by the time all the equipment is set up, you are frozen to the marrow and your fingers won’t work. Also, during this time Mars completely disappeared and Jupiter is now so faint that I can’t expect to get any half decent pictures. Of the planets only Venus is currently photographable with my modified webcam. Venus is a featureless, crescent moon shaped, white blob so not that interesting. But – Saturn will be visible in the Eastern skies towards the end of February so will make an effort to see that. As 2009 is the International Astronomical Year I would like to do something related to that.
