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Kiwiastronomer
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I have just posted a query re eyes seeing colour and finding this goes a long way to answering that query. Great article. Thanks, Don.
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croaky
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What an awesome post! Thanks for sharing this Wayne!  I especially liked your follow-up advice that one should relish their first views as much as they can. The 1st time I saw Jupiter with four of its moons is something I'll cherish all my life. Though this view was only through a 10x50 bino, and Jupiter was just a bright blob, what made the view very special for me were the four pinpoints around it - truly unforgetable...
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Dragonwatcher
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Very helpful thread. I was just getting ready to post a question about viewing Jupiter when I read the lead article and replies. I live in the Seattle area with bad light pollution and unsteady skies. I have been looking at Jupiter which is pretty low in the sky so I am looking through a lot of wavering, light-polluted atmosphere. But I have a high quality Stellarvue triplet 80mm telescope with excellent eyepieces (Radians, Naglers, TMB planetaries, Siebert Starsplitters, etc.) I expected to see Jupiter more clearly and I was going to ask if the problem was with my telescope or the seeing conditions. I can see the moons clearly but all I see on Jupiter are two indistinct bands that come and go - like faint stars, I see them best out of peripheral vision rather than hard staring. I read about others who see tremendous detail on Jupiter with small telescopes, so I was trying to decide why I don't. Now, I think it is a combination of poor conditions and my needing more patience and observing experience. I guess I need to to go out and observe more, training my eyes and being ready for those fleeting moments of more clear seeing.
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Protheus
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Now, I think it is a combination of poor conditions and my needing more patience and observing experience. I guess I need to to go out and observe more, training my eyes and being ready for those fleeting moments of more clear seeing.
Also try varying the magnification. You will find that depending on the current conditions, there will be a different sweet spot for high contrast. A slightly different eyepiece may surprise you.
Chris
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"Well, people sometimes ask me 'how did you get involved in astronomy?' I said 'I got born, what's your problem?'" -- John Dobson
"In discussing the large-scale structure of the cosmos, astronomers sometimes say that space is curved, or that the universe is finite but unbounded. Whatever are they talking about?" -- Carl Sagan
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