Thursday, 10 January 2013

Tal1 captures the Great Red Spot.



Just before supper last night, I had a quick look through the telescope.

Jupiter was shining brightly over in the East, so I trained the scope onto the King of the planets.

With the 15mm Kellner and X3 Barlow I was able to up the magnification to X169.

Considering the pretty poor seeing I was surprised to see any detail on the gas giant.

Whilst observing I thought I saw the great red spot.

It was only just visible through my 110mm reflector.

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