Tried to get out last night to take pictures, but it was the first cloudy night in weeks - such is my luck. I have two telescopes, an 8" Meade LX-200 Schmidt-Cassegrain (pre-GPS) and a Meade ETX-90RA Mak-Casse. Yesterday I finally bought a good tripod for the ETX
Now, I need the weather to cooperate. Mars is beautiful at midnight (magnitude -2.4). Other sites I plan to visit include the Whirlpool galaxy, the Dumbbell Nebula and maybe the elusive Ring Nebula one of these days. Oh, add the Andromeda Galaxy of course, but that's not much of a challenge. Check the planet roundup at Sky and Telescope
Posted by cbrown at August 3, 2003 8:21 PM