25 Aug
2007
25 Aug
'07
8:33 p.m.
Observing report with the F/40 singlet configuration: Lunar craters along the terminator clearly discerned as such. Any detail on the face of the moon, however, was too awash with color to clearly see. Jupiter was a colored disk, tint depending on just where the eyepeice was racked in relation to the part of the spectrum in focus at that particular point. No Jovian moons seen in a bright dusky sky. I may try later if I don't fall asleep first. Right now I feel very grateful for modern optics, and a renewed appreciation for astonomical pioneers who made some incredible discoveries with stinko telescopes.