Hello and thanks.

Hello group,

I hope this is not inappropriate but since I have no one to share this with,
and I really really need to tell someone, I will try my best English to tell
you about last night in my backyard, so if you feel this is not a nice thing
of me to do, stop reading and flame me.

I watch this group for quite a while now, and it made me take my old
telescope from the attic.

I browsed this group, surfed the net for information and "howto's" and tried
to get my 5inch f900 newton in good shape. It has been laying around for
many years without being used and it needed serious cleaning.

This early morning, 2AM I took it outside and after a while the tube felt
really cold, I started looking for the three objects that I had in mind.

Saturn was easy to find, shining very bright at about 30 degrees above the
eastern horizon. I spotted the rings and the planet and drew a scetch of the
planet and two tiny little stars that appeared just at the bottom left of
Saturn and a little further (app.4x) away slightly above to the right.

I wonder if that could have been two moons of Saturn, since they appeared to
be close to the planet,maybe 2 and 7 ringdiameters away from it and as far
as I understand the swingdiagram of the moons its maybe possible. That would
really give an extra afterward boost to lastnights backyardadventure!

I took it up to 45x, 90x and 150x, it was very very nice to see the planet
"grow" in the field of view but the air was disturbing and it made the scope
tremble a bit. When the sky gets even better in the future, I hope to spot
the cassini division as well!

After that I looked for M35 at 45x, and it took me just two minutes to find
it. I was amazed by the beautiful site of all this! I thought it was so much
better then any picture I had seen of it these last few days, I even
imagined I could see the 3dimensional shape of it, which is impossible in a
monoculary telescope isn't it?

The last object of my desire was the sword of Orion and the big nebula in
it. I could clearly see the lighter and darker shapes of it and followed it
a while across the sky. The longer I watched, the brighter it seemed to get,
I moved around it a bit and spotted several darker and other vague
nebula-like spots in its neighbourhood(the scope is on a manual eq.mount).

I want more... :-)

I never expected to have so much fun in my backyard with this old and
probably cheap telescope and I am looking forward to another clear sky
night, for there are many other miracles up there that I would like to see
with my own one eye!

Thank you so much for your inspiration, to all this group, reading your
postings really made me do it!

Greetings from the Netherlands, clear skies.
Iko.

--
Cras amet qui nunquam amavit,
Quique amavit, cras amet!
(May he love tomorrow who never has loved before; and may he who has loved,
love tomorrow aswell!)

IWJPoel wrote:

Hello group,

I hope this is not inappropriate but since I have no one to share this with,
and I really really need to tell someone, I will try my best English to tell
you about last night in my backyard, so if you feel this is not a nice thing
of me to do, stop reading and flame me.


Just one think, You are on the track ! :-)

I never expected to have so much fun in my backyard with this old and
probably cheap telescope and I am looking forward to another clear sky
night, for there are many other miracles up there that I would like to see
with my own one eye!

A nice story, I like to read of such happiness and pleasure. There are plenty
more miracles up there to discover with your scope. I would guess that those
two bright "stars" near Saturn were indeed a couple of her moons.

If you don't already have a nice star charting program, I suggest downloading
Cartes du Ciel, a great piece of work and the price is nice too, free...

Best wishes

jon

Hi Iko,

Observing reports are always welcome, especially when they show how much fun
the person is having! (BTW, your English is fine!)

Clear Skies

Chuck Taylor
Do you observe the moon?
Try the Lunar Observing Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/

"IWJPoel" wrote in message
...
Hello group,

I hope this is not inappropriate but since I have no one to share this
with,
and I really really need to tell someone, I will try my best English to
tell
you about last night in my backyard, so if you feel this is not a nice
thing
of me to do, stop reading and flame me.

I watch this group for quite a while now, and it made me take my old
telescope from the attic.

I browsed this group, surfed the net for information and "howto's" and
tried
to get my 5inch f900 newton in good shape. It has been laying around for
many years without being used and it needed serious cleaning.

This early morning, 2AM I took it outside and after a while the tube felt
really cold, I started looking for the three objects that I had in mind.

Saturn was easy to find, shining very bright at about 30 degrees above the
eastern horizon. I spotted the rings and the planet and drew a scetch of
the
planet and two tiny little stars that appeared just at the bottom left of
Saturn and a little further (app.4x) away slightly above to the right.

I wonder if that could have been two moons of Saturn, since they appeared
to
be close to the planet,maybe 2 and 7 ringdiameters away from it and as far
as I understand the swingdiagram of the moons its maybe possible. That
would
really give an extra afterward boost to lastnights backyardadventure!

I took it up to 45x, 90x and 150x, it was very very nice to see the planet
"grow" in the field of view but the air was disturbing and it made the
scope
tremble a bit. When the sky gets even better in the future, I hope to spot
the cassini division as well!

After that I looked for M35 at 45x, and it took me just two minutes to
find
it. I was amazed by the beautiful site of all this! I thought it was so
much
better then any picture I had seen of it these last few days, I even
imagined I could see the 3dimensional shape of it, which is impossible in
a
monoculary telescope isn't it?

The last object of my desire was the sword of Orion and the big nebula in
it. I could clearly see the lighter and darker shapes of it and followed
it
a while across the sky. The longer I watched, the brighter it seemed to
get,
I moved around it a bit and spotted several darker and other vague
nebula-like spots in its neighbourhood(the scope is on a manual eq.mount).

I want more... :-)

I never expected to have so much fun in my backyard with this old and
probably cheap telescope and I am looking forward to another clear sky
night, for there are many other miracles up there that I would like to see
with my own one eye!

Thank you so much for your inspiration, to all this group, reading your
postings really made me do it!

Greetings from the Netherlands, clear skies.
Iko.

--
Cras amet qui nunquam amavit,
Quique amavit, cras amet!
(May he love tomorrow who never has loved before; and may he who has
loved,
love tomorrow aswell!)

I wonder if that could have been two moons of Saturn, since they appeared to
be close to the planet,maybe 2 and 7 ringdiameters away from it and as far
as I understand the swingdiagram of the moons its maybe possible. That would
really give an extra afterward boost to lastnights backyardadventure!

Yup they likely were moons! Because Saturn is currently quite
inclined to us, the moons can be anywhere around it but they'll always
be some distance from the rings. This will slowly change over the
next few years as Saturn's orbital plane gets more edge on to us.
Then the moons will appear to move back and forth roughly along one
line just like Jupiter's.

I never expected to have so much fun in my backyard with this old and
probably cheap telescope and I am looking forward to another clear sky
night, for there are many other miracles up there that I would like to see
with my own one eye!

Thanks for the report.

Ritesh

IWJPoel wrote:
Hello group,

I hope this is not inappropriate but since I have no one to share this with,
and I really really need to tell someone, I will try my best English to tell
you about last night in my backyard, so if you feel this is not a nice thing
of me to do, stop reading and flame me.

I watch this group for quite a while now, and it made me take my old
telescope from the attic.

I browsed this group, surfed the net for information and "howto's" and tried
to get my 5inch f900 newton in good shape. It has been laying around for
many years without being used and it needed serious cleaning.

This early morning, 2AM I took it outside and after a while the tube felt
really cold, I started looking for the three objects that I had in mind.

Saturn was easy to find, shining very bright at about 30 degrees above the
eastern horizon. I spotted the rings and the planet and drew a scetch of the
planet and two tiny little stars that appeared just at the bottom left of
Saturn and a little further (app.4x) away slightly above to the right.

I wonder if that could have been two moons of Saturn, since they appeared to
be close to the planet,maybe 2 and 7 ringdiameters away from it and as far
as I understand the swingdiagram of the moons its maybe possible. That would
really give an extra afterward boost to lastnights backyardadventure!

I took it up to 45x, 90x and 150x, it was very very nice to see the planet
"grow" in the field of view but the air was disturbing and it made the scope
tremble a bit. When the sky gets even better in the future, I hope to spot
the cassini division as well!

After that I looked for M35 at 45x, and it took me just two minutes to find
it. I was amazed by the beautiful site of all this! I thought it was so much
better then any picture I had seen of it these last few days, I even
imagined I could see the 3dimensional shape of it, which is impossible in a
monoculary telescope isn't it?

The last object of my desire was the sword of Orion and the big nebula in
it. I could clearly see the lighter and darker shapes of it and followed it
a while across the sky. The longer I watched, the brighter it seemed to get,
I moved around it a bit and spotted several darker and other vague
nebula-like spots in its neighbourhood(the scope is on a manual eq.mount).

I want more... :-)

I never expected to have so much fun in my backyard with this old and
probably cheap telescope and I am looking forward to another clear sky
night, for there are many other miracles up there that I would like to see
with my own one eye!

Thank you so much for your inspiration, to all this group, reading your
postings really made me do it!

Greetings from the Netherlands, clear skies.
Iko.

--
Cras amet qui nunquam amavit,
Quique amavit, cras amet!
(May he love tomorrow who never has loved before; and may he who has loved,
love tomorrow aswell!)


Thank you for your wonderful post.
It is exciting to go out at night with an old friend, even if it only
has one eye.;-)
Let us know how it is going from time to time.
Regards,
Etok


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IWJPoel wrote:

Hello group,
.................................................. ..............
I wonder if that could have been two moons of Saturn, since they appeared to
be close to the planet,maybe 2 and 7 ringdiameters away from it and as far
as I understand the swingdiagram of the moons its maybe possible. That would
really give an extra afterward boost to lastnights backyardadventure!

.................................................. .......
Greetings from the Netherlands, clear skies.
Iko.

--
Cras amet qui nunquam amavit,
Quique amavit, cras amet!
(May he love tomorrow who never has loved before; and may he who has loved,
love tomorrow aswell!)

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