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Old 10-10-2018, 01:01 PM
Saturnine (Jeff)
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Wavy, why provide a link that has known malware issues !!!

This thread is something that I'm sure that would be useful to a lot of amateurs, old and new, about how telescopes perform and what we are actually seeing through them and how to interpret what we are seeing. When it comes to fine lunar features it is obvious that they exceed the supposed resolution of the telescope in use, in good seeing of course.
Have had a few memorable nights where I've pushed the old Jaegers 4" f9 to 75X per/ inch on the planets and moon and double stars. My NG 5" triplet does perform better than the old achro by are fair margin even taking the extra aperture into account.

Alex and yourself have provided a great resource with your knowledge and insights, thank you.
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