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Originally Posted by PhilW
I ended up spending about an hour off & on observing it. I would say it was the second-best night I've had this Saturn season (the best was in the early hours of the morning at the start of 08). The eyepieces I used were:
- Pentax XF 8.5
- Pentax XW 7
- Nagler 5mm T6
- Pentax XF 8.5 + TeleVue 2x barlow.
The air was easily stable enough to support the barlowed XF (375x), but the most pleasing view was with the XW 7. It's not a traditional planetary eyepiece, but I get great planetary views out of it regardless.
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that's pretty bloody impressive when taking into account Saturn's modest altitude. No doubt 500-600x would've been doable if Saturn were near the zenith like Jupiter. Last month I got a few seconds of rock steadiness on Saturn at 350x on my 12" dob, very nice, but most of the time so far I've found it hard to exceed 200x.