High!

Bill Hails wrote:

> 11cm Russian-made TAL-1, I can see the rings of Saturn on a clear night :-)

Ah, the TAL-1! The mounting looks quite massive, it surely would carry 
an additional camera... unlike my somewhat flimsy EQ-2 with my Bresser 
Mizar (11.4 cm/900 mm focal length). Saturn's rings are generally no 
problem, I even was able to spot Titan one night... but as I until 
recently had to watch under a metropolitan area sky, this is far from 
the best results possible with a 4.5-incher - under optimal conditions 
(Afghan mountain desert sky with no scattered artificial light within a 
200-km radius) at least Rhea, Iapetus, Dione and Tethys, perhaps even 
Enceladus would be also visible...

Yes, astronomy (as well as programming) is one of the best excuses to 
turn night into day! Unfortunately, my telescope now is with my parents 
in the dark but remote countryside, about 60 kms from here, so that I'm 
able to observe only on weekends - and during recent months, the weekend 
weather over Germany was a complete failure, just LRCC (Lower Rhenanian 
Cloud Cover)...

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

Now playing: Esthematique (Serge Blenner)

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