Checking up on the moon..
okay, i did my first observation tonight..
i did see the moon, as on the photo on the website, but the one thing i noticed was that the moon was cocked a few degrees counter clockwise over here. i will take a few more peeks as the night progresses, but i seem to be seeing the little belly button thing on the moon shifted around ten degrees..
also, i checked the binoculars i have, and found that they are bushnell 10×50.. they don’t adjust focus, which strikes me as odd. almost sounds like i am making some sort of optical tradeoff here.
anyway.. i will check on the moon again in a bit, and see if it is revolved.
while i was out there, i tried tuning in to some amateur satellites. i heard TWO!! i am not sure which ones they were, but i heard them loud and clear. it was awesome. the first one just passed some packets, the other was voice. i will be checking more and more of these out tonight.
another thing i did was use Stellarium to figure out what is where. i found that saturn is supposed to be up somewhere, but it is too cloudy to see it.