Time: 3/23/2002 10:00PM-12:00AMLocation: Parent’s house, College Point, NY — about 45 degreesEquipment: 4.5″ Newtonian Got my laser collimator today, and tried to collimate the scope using it. I also have the focuser cap for 1.25″ eyepieces instead of the .965″ eyepieces.After collimating used the 17mm(54x) and 7.4mm(123x) 1.25″ eyepieces on Jupiter. Was able to see
Time: 3/14/2002 9:00-10:30 PMLocation: Jones BeachTemperature: about 50 degreesEquipment: 4.5 inch Newtonian. Sky started out partially cloudy. I went to Jones Beach mainly to test out my collimation. I’m trying to see if I can see Airy rings around stars. I started with what I’m pretty sure was Arcturus in the East, but I wasn’t
Time: 3/10/2002 ~7:00-7:30 PMLocation: Jones BeachWent to Jones beach to meet with Linda Prince to Try to find Comet Ikeya-Zhang. Temp about mid 30s. Extremely windy. Partially cloudy. Did not set up the scope because of wind conidtions. Linda brought a set of Binoculars that she let me use to try to find the comet,