The Dutch Observatory

January 10, 2010 on 7:11 pm | In Mars, Planets | Comments Off

The winds calmed down a bit, but it still was bitter cold.  Not as cold as Joel, but 18-19 degrees is cold enough to numb my fingers.   Here an image from last night/early this morning.  It was difficult to control my scope with the handcontroller.  It looked like it did nto want to move or the backlash was set to “very long”.  I am sure I could have done better, but my fingers did not want to cooperate in the cold….