Jul 03

Went out 2 nights ago but there was a lot of haze — it was the clearest night we’ve had in 2 weeks.  I had recently gotten the Meade LPI camera, a cheapo camera for planetary imaging.  I was using it primarily to calibrate the drive gears on the scope.  I will also use it to do periodic error correction (PEC) which corrects for inherent gearing problems with all scopes but I need to do that when the scope is on the wedge (another night).  We did try taking some shots of Jupiter but the haze was bad.  We capped the night by just doing some observing of the moon and tracking down craters with a moon atlas.