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remhill2003
 Monday, June 19 2006 @ 11:15 pm EDT (Read 1552 times)  
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Since getting back into astronomy I have been mostly observing jupiter,the moon & a few Messier objects,I'm still don't know the night sky well enough to be able to navigate to a deep sky object without help,that's were the goto feature comes in handy,& I've seen some objects that just blow me away,but there are things in our own little solar system that are absolutely stunning,this last sunday(6/18)I went down in the kibler bottoms & set up,I wanted to try & image saturn & mars together,but they were already to far apart to get them together in my cameras field of view,I was using the neximage ccd camera,so I started by observing saturn & getting a few pics,which I have posted in photo gallery,then mars,then jupiter,but I kept coming back to saturn,I am continually amazed at the beauty of her rings & the way the moons appear as points of light,almost like diamonds,you could see the shadow of saturn on her rings,I kept thinking about us having spacecraft investigating the planet rings & her moons & it made me realize how far we had came since the wright brothers first flight,it would be nice to see where we are at in 100yrs


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