Saturday, February 11, 2023

2/11: A Great Night with the Telescope

 I'm pretty sure we saw the Green Comet, C2022/C3.  We used Stellarium https://stellarium.org to find its approximate location (in the night sky near Mars) and used the telescope to find it.  It was faint, but with a greenish tint.

We also used Celestron astronomical binoculars to look at objects in the night sky. Between the telescope, our eyes and binoculars, we looked at:

  • C2022/C3 (we think)
  • Mars
  • A star nebula west of Orion
  • Aldebaran
  • Cassiopeia
  • Orion
  • Several aircraft flying overhead
The sky was very clear and it was a great night to use the telescope.

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