Re: Finding Phobos and Deimos with Guide 7

Jari Suomela May 19, 2001

--- In guide-user@y..., "Dennis L. Means" <star3248@e...> wrote:

> For something different Monday night we tried to observe the
> satellites of Mars visually with the 2.3 meter Bok telescope
> of Steward Observatory. The 2.3 meter is on Kitt Peak.
> We used a TeleVue 55mm plossl eyepeice. This gave us a
> power of 375x.

Whoa! I didn't realize that you could just pop in an ordinary eyepiece
into one of them professional telescopes and do some _real_ observing.
Anyway, nice report!

Jari