With the likelihood of rain for the NewMoon weekend in Yass/Canberra area Phil and I decided to go out to Bango for a 6 hour Sky Tour....
I set up the 18" F5.8 Dob with its new 3" secondary while Phil set up the 120mm Astro Physics to play with until the Mewlon300 cooled down.
Once the Mewlon got closer to ambient we started working down my list of targets ranging from the very easy and bright to some fairly faint stuff.
We used a mixture of eyepieces including the Nagler 26T5, TS40ED, Nagler 17T4, Nagler 13T6, Nagler 7T6, Delos 14 & 6 as well as Takahashi LE40 & 12.5 & 7.5
The seeing was a bit variable but the more annoying thing for me was the gusty wind that meant the Dob was limited to around 200x for most of the evening with only occasional moments of 340x and 425x.
Targets for the night included:
Planets: Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto
Messiers: 2, 7, 8, 15, 31, 32, 33, 42, 43, 45, etc
NGC: 55, 104, 253, 292, 300, 362, 1316, 1851, 2070, 4755, 5128, 5139, 7293, 7662 etc
as well as Saturn's moons Titan, Rhea, Dione, Tethys and Enceladus and a few obscure things that Phil found on SS5Pro...
With all those visual delicacies on offer I still find it hard to beat NGC104 (47Tuc) , we viewed it at 98x, 148x, 182x, 340x and 425x in the 18"
