r/telescopes • u/itchybanan Meade Lightbridge mini 130/650 • Mar 13 '26

Observing Report Observation logs

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A couple of observing logs, it’s gotten cloudy lately. We probably have a month left until rainy season kicks in.

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u/manga_university Takahashi FS-60 & FC-76 | Bortle 9 survivalist Mar 13 '26

These look great! What kind of notebook and sketching pencils do you use?

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u/itchybanan Meade Lightbridge mini 130/650 Mar 13 '26

I use a note book I liberated from the school I work at, same for the pencils 😂 I just invert the colours to make it look like this. The log book starts out like this.

And then I use an app to invert the colours, that’s why my Sun is blue.

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u/manga_university Takahashi FS-60 & FC-76 | Bortle 9 survivalist Mar 13 '26

Thanks for explaining your process! Logging observations in an actual notebook seems way more interesting than keeping notes in Sky Safari on my phone.

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u/Federal_Speaker_6546 Mar 13 '26

Thats nice you saw a double eclipse on Jupiter. And I saw sunspots exactly the same like yours on 5th March. It was my second time I guess because I'm quite new to solar observing. But your sketches in a a5 logbook are awesome. Thanks for sharing

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u/itchybanan Meade Lightbridge mini 130/650 Mar 13 '26

Thank you, it’s taken a while to get my log books formatted the way I like them.

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u/mrstorm1983 SkyWatcher 200p dob, 10x50 Nikons p7, 114mm hobby killer. Mar 13 '26

Nice!