Nice view of Jupiter and moons from balcony (15x70 celestron skymaster binolculars... heavy beast). Saturn is neaby too but too hard to get a good view due to shakiness and turbulence. I bet I’d see at least an elongated smear with a tripod, though not resolve rings.
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*Really* tempted to buy a telescope. Haven’t owned one since high school. But new place has huge big sky view... lots of sky visible even with LA light pollution. Also just a mike from Griffith observatory so could always lug it up there.
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High school scope was a 3.5” budget Newtonian. Now I’d probably shell out for a 6” Schmidt-Cassegrain at least.
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Optical instruments are the only thing I truly lust after
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Feeling oddly more cheerful and calmer thanks to my binocular astronomy session tonight. I’d forgotten the feeling. The last time I had a favorable home-based observing situation was 1990. Since then either obstructions or light pollution or cloudy/bad weather has interfered
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I have a small Meade scope with a motorized equatorial mount. I brought it out for the first time in years to view Neowise. But Saturn and Jupiter turned out to be better targets. Rings and Galilean moons easily visible.

