There was an open house at the new National Air and Space Museum observatory Tuesday evening. With all the light pollution and clouds moving in, the target was easy-to-see Jupiter, and the 4 Galilean moons. This was a large refractor (I think 6"?) on a tracking equatorial mount, and provided a clear, colorful view of Jupiter's atmospheric bands. It would be nice to have a telescope like this one mounted on my balcony. The white balance is way off on this one, sorry!
Nice Observatory (Français: Observatoire de Nice) estas turisma vidindaĵo, unu el la Observatorioj en Nico , Francujo . Ĝi situas: 5.7 km de La Trinité-Victor, 458 km de Torino, 740 km de Milano. Read further
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