Jupiter Party along the Teapot!

This wee hours of the morning, I managed to spurn the soporific call of Lady Sleep and kept vigil with my C6 and was rewarded with some awesome sight of the night sky that was along the eastern part! :-)

It had rain heavily for the good part of the day earlier and I thought I wouldn't be able to get the scope out for a run or two. But the rain stopped by 8+pm and the skies cleared somewhat. When I came down around 12.30 a.m. to set the equipment up, I was worried awhile because the clouds started to play havoc on the skies that blanketed the portion I wanted to look at. Then it began to disperse and I had the whole eastern sky to myself! ;-)

And I wasn't disappointed...

Jupiter and her 4 moons (Ganymede, Europa, Callisto and Io) shone clearly through the scope and I used the Starshoot to capture their beauty! Well, as best as I can capture them, that is :-P I had to overexpose one to get the moons in. But through the C6 I saw Jupiter and her moons very distinctly. The last I saw Jup was exactly last year with Fr Paul Goh's scope over at OLPS then.

Then, when I got through with admiring Jupiter, it was time for some interesting look over at the Scorpius constellation. Beside it on the left was good 'ol Saggitarius, a.k.a. the Teapot. Between them I saw and captured M7. M6 was nearby but rather dim for me to grab anything though I could see both M6 and M7 through the binocs which had a greater point of view, which made seeing slightly more visible. The picture on the left is a portion of M7 taken with the Starshoot on Light Mono at 3 sec exposure.

It is the best and fruitful stargazing so far and hopefully will be able to do the same to cover a little more of the eastern skies towards the north a little tomorrow...