I think the thing that disappoints me the most is that Jupiter will continue
to get lower for US observers until either 2008/09? when it will start to
rise again. That means a tough candidate for observing, but nonetheless
still interesting when seeing cooperates.

JW

"Starlord" wrote in message
...
Last night I almost had to leave the corner without giving any views, that
blanket of smoke from the fires had for some strange reason turned from
going due east to going northwest, as I was setting and watching for
Jupiter
to show up the smoke just about wiped the sky out. By 8:30 no stars or
anything else was to be seen. Just before I was going to pack up I pulled
out the 10x20 binos that are almost shot and using oneside I found
jupiter,
moved the scope over a bit and zeroed in on it. Jupiter? How about MARS
with
strips? That's almost what it looked like with the smoke between it ond
me.
But I still gave views of it, mostly kids last night, a few grown ups took
a
look, but mostly kids would brake away from their folks sitting out and
eating and would come over. As it neared 10pm the sky started clearing of
smoke and I stayed out until 10:30 when Rosamond pulled in the sidewalks.
;}

Got home and took a damp washrag out and clenaned off the sticky ice cream
finger prints from the scope.


--
The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond

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