First Light Image: December 16, 2000 With New Refractor

Jupiter December 17, 0400 UT

A friend and I installed my new 228 mm Apochromatic (APO) refractor on December 16, 2000 and I acquired this image that same evening at about 8:00 PM PST in mediocre seeing. For more information on the La Scala observatory follow the links below.

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