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Originally Posted by astroron
Dennis, two of those objects were visible in the 16"with 13mm Nagler and 2x barlow=242x mag, I did not know which was a moon, but could see them quite plainly, I was seeing stars down past 15th mag in my supernova search.
At astrofest a few years ago an astronomer from Space telescope science institute, named Eric Karkoscka(spelling) showed that you could see some moons of Uranus with a medium to large telescope, in fact I think that he used Zac's 20" on the night.
The seeing last night was about 8-10 Trans 7.5-10 Temp 6.5  |
Hi Ron
Strewth - for one moment I thought you had come over to the "dark side", replying to a post on ccd imaging!
Seriously though, your report is an excellent account of what can be achieved visually by experienced observers with larger aperture 'scopes - well done! My own experience has been that seeing these types of special or unusual objects visually, leaves a deeper impression and is more personally rewarding than grabbing an image.
Cheers
Dennis