Saturday October 20, 2007 - PENSACOLA BEACH, FL: While visiting Pensacola Beach, I happened to run into an astronomy club who were holding their monthly public skywatch. They let anyone and everyone view Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, the Andromeda Galaxy, and the moon. We watched "shooting stars" and even saw a satellite go overhead. The picture of the moon was taken through the eyepiece of one of the telescopes. The man in the last picture is NOT a ghost, but since this was a timed exposure he walked into my camera's field of view toward the end of the exposure... the bright spot in front of his scope is Jupiter... pretty cool! (click on the picture to see a larger view).
2 comments:
I hope you had an enjoyable time with us at the beach gaze in Pensacola. The Moon shot you took with my 8" SCT came out pretty good. Drop me line anytime you're gonna pass through our area, I'll contact a couple of club members to arrange to go out and set up some scopes.
Dewey Barker
EAAA Vice-President
Did you see Uranus with a mirrored reflective telescope or a refractive type?
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