Astronomy 101 - Moon and Jupiter
I recently purchased a telescope ( AstroMaster 70AZ ) from Amazon and gifted it to my wife ( Juhi Ranjan ) on her birthday. After days of waiting of a clear sky, we finally got our chance on 14th March, 13. We had already adjusted our viewfinder in the daylight by focusing on objects, such as cars, at a distance of around 400 meters from our house. It was an amazing feeling to see distant objects in a clear and crisp manner. We also had skymap installed on our mobile to locate various planetary bodies at night. We have a considerably big backyard and if there are no clouds we can have a visual treat to stars and most of the constellations. We live in Charlottesville and air is pretty clean here. Once we clear novice level, we can also reach out to McCormick Observatory which is a mile away from our house, but is located on a hill and gives a much better view of sky. Image Source At night around 9pm, in chilling cold we took our telescope out. The moon was cresce