From: "matt carmine" <jim_chung@sunshine.net>

Date: July 16, 2011 1:34:23 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: First Jupiter of the season! (from Toronto)

Seeing was predicted to be very good this morning and I had wisely setup my 12"

Dob to cool on the edge of my front lawn overnight. I woke up at 5:30 and

stumbled outside to see that it was already very light and by the time I

finished positioning the scope, finding and focusing on Jupiter, it was already

impossible to discern Jupiter in the bright morning sky with the naked eye. I

had just enough time to do a single capture at 6:00 and this time everything

worked!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/Jupiter07162011.jpg

Jupiter is still quite small and continued to rise another 10 degrees by 8:00 so

better opportunities will arise by October. Still nothing like the first

Jupiter of the season.

I've moved the Skywatcher Dob to an EQ6 mount (w 60lbs of counterweight) so I

guess it's technically a reflector and no longer a dob.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/dobonatlas2small.jpg