Hi all,
Went to Julian's last night. Only observed for 2 hours. But is was first light with my 12" and also good to compare with his big scope ha ha you should not do this. Size does matter !!
It was very warm night northerly blowing and some high cloud, but that went away once dark. Seeing was ok and transparency was poor.
The mozzies where terrible.
Looked at many objects but my aim was to use the 12" and see how it went. Tried many eyepieces to see what works best.
Bottom line is the GSO" eyepieces that came with the scope are hopeless
in such a scope. There ok in an Apo but not the Newt.
Tried most of the Nagler line and a few others. Came up with a couple of eyepieces that worked best in my scope with out a Parracor.
And they where not the Naglers !!!!! 24 Pano worked beautifully as well as the Meade UWA 14 mm. they were the pick of the night.
I had a bit of trouble with the AZ movement but should sort it out by camp.
Bottom line the 18 ate and chewed the 12 up and then spat it out and laughed !!
lucky there was not a smaller scope !!