A complete change

As Mike said we put his telescope together yesterday and put it through its paces last night. Jupiter was high in the sky and was the perfect target to for a beginner. The cloud belt stood out a long with three of the moons of Jupiter. One was disappearing onto the surface with a very small gap just visible to us. The air was not that steady seeing how cold it had been in the day. We had clear steady air for a few seconds, and then everything would go out of focus. Then I pointed out to Mike the there was a dark spot on one of the cloud belts. this was the fourth moon making a transit of the planet.  With an 8" telescope this is hard to see.

I then showed Mike M45 The Pleiades, this is an open cluster high in the sky around 8:00 in the evening.

All this go me to have a go with mine this morning but I really had left it a bit late. The Moon was heading west and the atmosphere was a bit too thick, so getting a good focus was impossible. I had a go anyway. Not as good as I have taken but ok (if you don't look too hard).

Montes Apenninus

South is up and North is down

I wont bore you any more

Thank for looking