On Sunday evening I had just returned from a wonderful weekend of Barbershop Harmony, singing songs with members of the Atlantic Harmony Brigade, a group of men who love singing 4-part harmony in the Barbershop style. My lovely wife Tina always supports me in all my crazy hobbies. We had dinner in Hampton beach and then headed back home. Since she had some work to do for the evening, on very little sleep I went out to the boardwalk again at about 8:30 pm.
Tonight was no less thrilling than last week. Many people, some couples, some with kids, stopped by to look at Jupiter and its moons. (Most people said they had seen it in the sky earlier in the evening and most said they had guessed it was Venus.)
Since I only set up the 80mm Zenithstar ED refractor, we saw two equatorial cloud bands and four moons. Unfortunately Io had already emerged from eclipse, but I think next chance I get I will put the electronic EP in and see if I can get a recording on my laptop of some movement of the moons over an hour or so. That would be fun to play back before people look in the binoviewer.
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