Equipment:
nearly all of it. Had issues with the goto mount, it didn’t want to work right. I know the mount was level so something had to be wrong with the calibration part. I know it’s worked in the past so i’m puzzled why it was off by so much. Otherwise the old clone EQ5 did great, as usual, but I think the 8″ newt is way too much for Jupiter. I had trouble getting focus all night, and it kept washing out, even with EP filters. I reduced the aperture to 3″ and got much better results. Which correlated to the 102mm Mak & refactor I tried. Both did superbly even at higher powers.
I need to drill out the old tripod so I can get both Equitorial mounts working together. I could really use a good EQ5 goto, but….
Seeing:
meh, it was clear, and I did get more lucky frames than not. But overall the moon was too bright overall. the smaller aperture scopes did better.
Observations:
mostly Jupiter. I did spend some time on the moon, there was still enough relief & shadow to get some interesting high power views of the termination area. I tried a bunch of dso’s with the goto, but it wasn’t working well, and the only one I found was M5 and I didn’t stay on it long. If the goto did get close to any other DSO’s, the moon washed them out, although I doubt it was 100% the moons fault.