Last weekend I had planned to take the telescope out to Joshua Tree National Park, but the entire southwest was clouded out for the weekend so I set up the telescope to take a look at Jupiter. It is getting pretty low in the western sky now when the sun is setting which unfortunately is where most of our light pollution is coming from. There was too much distortion to really use any high magnification but the view through the Obsession UC 18" was almost better than we ever had in our previous 11" Celestron so that was pretty cool. It was just fun being outside and enjoying the night. Friday night, there is going to be a Europa shadow transit on Jupiter so I'll try to catch that - probably the last transit for us until next year when Jupiter is back high in the sky.
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