(This won't make any sense to anyone who hasn't read The Little Prince ...)
On the Shallow Sky list, Brent Hutto wrote:
> I mostly used 226x and a little of 204x with an 8" SCT. I also tried > a bit higher magnification but the whole planet was a white blur. > At 226x, Callisto and Io looked like fairly clean disks, but the bands > on Jupiter were wiggling around like snakes swallowing a rodent.Reading that made me think of Antoine De Saint-Exupery's book The Little Prince,
(The SEBoa swallowing an elephant ...)