equipment, seeing or what?Posted By Ron Sowers |
Hey all, question on viewing Jupiter, we have 2 scopes, both with good optics. A 6 inch f5 reflector, and a meade 90etx, I never get to see much detail on Juptiter BUT see a lot on Saturn. One night a couple years ago, the seeing was excellent, in our 6 inch, I was at about 280x, Saturn was tack sharp, showed an olive colored cap, a dusky band, even glimped the Encke divsion and the C ring. BUT Jupiter still only showed two major band and I could barely detect minor bands. What scope does it take to really see detail on Jupiter? It looked best this year in our etx at about 150x. But still not like the impression I get from others veiws. Thanks!
Ron