i made another shot at observing for the 365 days of observations, but as it started to get dark, clouds fell over the whole sky. i couldn’t even see the moon at all..
i tried to hit a few satellite passes on the radio, but it was raining like mad outside, so i didn’t get to do any kinda dorky shiz tonight..
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.
i think im gonna try this. i am gonna haul myself outside each clear night to see if i can find all the doodads this guys is pointing out each night.. i will blog it and see how it goes. i have a small telescope, but it looks like i can do at least the first part of the year with my binoculars. i don’t know what kind i have, but i will check into it and let you know. they are some crap ones i got at kmart a long time ago. maybe i will buy some new ones.. we’ll see..
for the sake of completeness, i will add where i am. i have been using heavens above for awhile, and this is the observing site i have been using. the elevation is not correct, but i would guess it’s close enough for observing:
Coordinates: 40.8690� N, 82.3180� W Elevation: 0 meters (0 feet) Region: Ohio, United States of America Time Zone: Eastern Standard Time (GMT - 5:00)