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I thought, “Is that them?” as I was pulling into my garage. I had an activity tonight and didn’t expect to be able to catch it before they set, but was able to see it from my deck using the 20-60× spotting scope shortly before they disappeared behind the mountains. Saturn’s rings and several of Jupiter’s satellites were clearly visible.

And happy solstice to anyone who observes such things or at least takes some comfort in the fact that the days will be getting longer now. Smile




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Yup Big Grin
 
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Yup Big Grin


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A neighbor had a telescope set up and invited the neighborhood over to take a look. We could clearly see the rings on Saturn and 4 moons around Jupiter.

We live in a new subdivision, really great the way people turn out and socialize. Totally different from where we used to live and part of the reason we left.
 
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It was beautiful...

Had my refractor out and could see 4 of Jupiter's moons.


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Looks about like this:



Washington is not an ideal place for viewing celestial events.



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Cloudy, raining and too low on the horizon, so no.

You should see the pot farms in Canada though. Looks like a small city on fire.
 
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Nothing to see here. Overcast with rain/sleet Frown
 
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yes, the wife reminded me and with clear skies we shared seeing the Christmas Star.
enjoyed seeing this beautiful sight...have to wait 800 years now for the next show.
 
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I had clouds.

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Ahyoka Star and I went out to look at the "Christmas Star" tonight. From where I am, it was short lived as it was behind the large hills in short order.

I only had 10X binoculars to look at it, but I was able to make out some of the rings.

Ahyoka Star sat next to me and was a good girl.


Merry Christmas to all!

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Yup, just got back from checking it out from the school field nearby, very cool.

March we had comet NEOWISE for nearly a month of watching; the week leading up to tonight, and the week after, we get to check out Jupiter and Saturn in alignment. Wish I had a telescope to see the moons.
 
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Clear skies here and able to see it with the naked eye.
Pretty cool... but better blown up with the cameras on the local news/ weather.



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It was perfect viewing here in Georgia. We didn’t have any cloud cover in my area.
 
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Tried but all I got was clouds.


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Saw Saturns rings, Jupiter and 4 of her moons with the telescope. As close as they appear they were still 450 MILLION miles apart! Only got about an hour of it before they dropped behind the trees and houses Frown

At least something spectacular happened in 2020.


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Michigan was holding to it's 70% cloud cover fame so no


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was hoping to see it, but it was cloudy and raining here Frown
 
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I had a nice view but nothing but 10x50 Binos. I could only see the plants. No rings or Moons.




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Cold dreary, rainy, cloudy here in NE Ohio. What’s not to love. Well,, I guess I’ll have to wait for the next one. Wink
 
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