Well it was a nice clear week in Tichigan and it gave us the opportunity to exploring the solar system. Armed with pair of 10x50 Binoculars we set out to find Neptune. The hardest part was finding a decent set of finder charts. Finally we found a program called Cartes du Ciel ( a free program ) that generated awsome star chart. It was kind of tough recognizing the constellation of Capricorn. It was low and in the haze at 9:30 PM. But once we found the stars Deneb Algeti and Nashira it was easy to see Neptune as a small blue star in the middle of a equilateral triangle just west of 42 Cap. If you didn't know where to look you'ld miss it. Even with the 6 inch and 10 inch newtonians we couldn't see much more than a pinpoint of light.
We''ll try to figure out how to post the charts.
K9WIS.
Auf 24, 2008
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