Saturn

On this date I saw Saturn for the first time this season. I havent seen it since we were living in guelph Febuary or March of 2004.

The seeing was good which made for some nice visuals, i could swear i was seeing 'hints' of the cassini division, it was fading in and out of view possibly due to the atmosphere, or it may have been my mind.

On a Side note: Saturn is easily one of my favorite objects to observe, and it also happends to be the VERY FIRST object that I looked upon through my scope, it was not skill, by any means, just pure dumb luck i pointed the scope to the brightest object i could find in the limited sky from our apartment, and there it was a bright large smear of light with my 25mm eyepiece, i then zoomed in a bit more and was able to see Saturn's rings, "it's Saturn!" I shouted.

Date: 11/4/2004
Time: 12:02 AM
Location: Backyard of 111 Reed Drive
Seeing: Good
Site Conditions: The weather was calm and still, but very cold, almost freezing as the frost built up on the wooden deck, making it slippery.
Eyepiece Used: 9mm
Instrument: Nexstar 114GT with 4330DX