Re: [ATM] Saturn's moons

["Bob May" <rmay@nethere.com>]

Coingrats!
The problem with Saurns moons is that they are often way off of
the ecliptic of the planet so they are more wandering around the
starfield.  Jupiter's moons, on the other hand are nearly on the
eliptic so they just wander baack and forth across the planet.
There's more out there and it takes a rememvering of the sky from
inth to night to spot them out.
The only time that it becomes easy to spot the moons of Saturn is
when the rings are edge on so that all of the moons do the back
and forth dance that Jupiter's moons do.
FWIW, I use M101 as a standard for a good sky out in places other
than my driveway and if I see it in my 80mm binocs, I consider
that to be an excellent sky.  M101's problem is that it is really
a low surface brightness object so it takes a good sky
transparency to see it to any degree.  Using a telescope at
highher powers only makes somehting like that harder to see.
Bob May

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