90 MilliMeters

But so what? It was late and I had a long day designing a website for a fussy client and just didn’t feel like getting out my scope so, I grab my trusty binoculars. Nothing major about my binoculars, 7 x 35, kind of small for astronomy. But hey, it’s what I got.

So, what’s cool to look at? I looked at the moon, of course. saw some craters. I know many seasoned amature astronomers don’t bother to look at the moon so much because they looked at it a thousand times. So have I and I will continue to look at the moon because it’s still interesting. Always will be.

Next, I turned my attention to Jupiter. Perfectly placed for viewing. Even though my binocluars are small, I can still see the largest moons. The area of sky where Jupiter is currently placed was awash with moon light but I could still make out two of the moons on one side of the big planet and, I suspected one on the other side, but I couldn’t be sure.

Maybe tonight, if all is quite, I’ll take out my camera and try to capture Jupiter. We shall see.