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Originally Posted by barx1963
I have a 2x TV barlow and it works OK with the 13mm nag. In the Orion 8mm its just mush.
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Sounds like a case of bad seeing. The 8mm+2x combo gives you 374x so it's on the high side. With the seeing lately, mush is the best we can hope for
The one time I exceeded 300x this summer was back in Nov, I was getting a nice hard edged Uranus at 534x albeit with regular smearing as the seeing worked its magic, but at 381x it was a textbook sharp ball. Stars themselves were nice points at over 400x. On a typical night, attempting 500x + on Uranus gives me a nice blurry planetary nebula type thing.