Planets instead of renter

[beowabbit]

I hurried home from work to meet a potential renter, and on my way home noticed that Venus and Jupiter were very close together, and on the other side of the sky was Mars, along with the Moon. I was running a bit late, but I couldn’t resist pulling out my binoculars when I got home (could see a couple of the moons of Jupiter).

Well, the person who was going to look at the room had something come up at work and needed to reschedule. So I went ahead and pulled out the telescope, and got to look at the three planets (plus the moon) in it for a while. As last time, Mars was just a featureless orange disk, but I could faintly see cloud bands on Jupiter, and could tell the phase of Venus more clearly than through the binoculars. Yay planets!

Comments

[gentlescholar.livejournal.com]

Yay planets indeed. I've been watching them each clear night for a while; it's been getting more spectacular lately.

[smacaski.livejournal.com]

I haven't pulled out my telescope in forever. Should do that (and get somewhere without so much light pollution).

If you think Jupiter looks cool through binoculars, you should look into going to an open house at Wellesley College's observatory--they have a 12" telescope this is 1) very pretty (it's made of wood (mahogany?) with brass fittings), and 2) great for looking at Jupiter. And Saturn--and Professor French is giving a talk on Saturn at the end of this month--on a good night, not only can you see Saturn's rings, you can also see one or two of the gaps in the rings!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Love my astral sweetie!