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Old February 25th 04, 03:20 AM
Michael Barlow
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Approximately 9:40pm 02/24/02 Eastern time while looking at Jupiter I
seen a tiny black dot run across the disc of Jupiter. It took a total of
maybe 3/4 to a full second to do this. The size of this thing relating it
to what I seen on the planet would be about 1/4 to 1/2 of a band on Jupiter.

I had just finished a roll of Film on M42 and a roll of Jupiter and
decided to just to a little gazing. After maybe a minute of gazing letting
my eye catch as much detail as it could I seen this dot run from the eye
piece right side to the left side.. South to North visually. Just after
seeing this thing and taking a second to say "WOW" I looked at the clock,
9:41pm (cheap radio synched digital wall clock).

Meade 8" LX90 SCT
Scope - Orion shorty 2x barlow - 18mmSWA.
Perfectly Clear skies..
11*f - 59% humidity
Seeing - 9/10
Trans. - 10/10
In my Observatory
42*N - 77*W
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Michael A. Barlow


 




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