2023 - a brand new year.
Not much for NY resolutions, but will try to get Dobby the house scope out more often this year.
Started with NYE/NYD - enjoying a good look at the Pleiades, Jupiter, Mars, and the Moon.
Used the new mobile-camera eyepiece mount and took a few photos and tried some videos to see if a frame capture got a good shot.
Took some stunning videos of the moon. Waxing gibeous, the terminator looked amazing. Mountains and craters throwing fantastic shadows.
Jupiter was bright and three Galilean were clear. As always, Jupiter's bands washed out in the photos when including the moons, but with the Moon Filter I was able to image the rings in some of the best shots I think I've ever taken of Jupiter.
Mars was very bright and a large disk in the eyepiece. Very hard to make out any surface markings though. I got an impression of the darker areas, but not clearly.
The bright moon washed out a lot of the nebulocity (name drop!) of the Pleiades, but as a jewel-box of stars it always satisfies. I tried a few photos, but its not possible to have a long enough exposure to be more than a few points of the brighter stars.
I was still looking through the scope as the fireworks went off around the suburb. Happy New Year! A great way to see in 2023.
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