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Saturn, last night, 1st session of season.

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#1 yock1960

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Posted 06 July 2025 - 01:25 PM

I was shocked, on looking to see when my last session was, that it's only been 4 months. I guess that's because there has been absolutely nothing going on in the world belushi.gif .

 

Anyway, because I'm not the 'sharpest tool in the shed', I 'let' the scope get blown over again back in the Spring and it's been sitting in the garage up until a few days ago! The silver lining was that it made me redo my polar alignment, which was close, but off last year and I just sat there doing manual corrections all season....because I'm a lazy imager! Now I can be even lazier. lol.gif

 

Conditions were not great and not bad, but seeing was better early/low versus later and higher, which I often think is just my local micro climate. A decent start I think.

 

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Posted 06 July 2025 - 01:33 PM

Nice one Steve! 

 

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Posted 06 July 2025 - 02:42 PM

Yup, very nice indeed!


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Posted 06 July 2025 - 03:01 PM

Good start to the season Steve!


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Posted 06 July 2025 - 03:49 PM

Very nice - I'm glad your scope survived its unplanned trip to the ground!

 

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Posted 06 July 2025 - 05:45 PM

Truly a Yockian image, if ever there was one
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#7 yock1960

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Posted 07 July 2025 - 03:11 AM

Very nice - I'm glad your scope survived its unplanned trip to the ground!

Kevin


Thanks Kevin, me too! The ground was pretty sodden, so it had a 'soft' landing and left a divot.

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Posted 07 July 2025 - 03:14 AM

Truly a Yockian image, if ever there was one


I have a 'style', who knew! 😆 Thanks Kevin.

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