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Old 04-09-2007, 09:59 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Originally Posted by erick View Post

Then a bright light behind me coming through the trees - What now?, I exclaimed!, are they back! Oh, the Moon. Spent the last half an hour before I had to pack up, experimenting with getting maximum magnification on the Moonscape (through pine trees - Duh!) but came up with a combination of barlow, extension tube and 6mm eyepiece that was giving huge magnification. Nothing startling with poorish seeing, low elevation and a row of pine trees in the way but I spent some time looking at craters Theophilus and Madler.
lol how much did you crank it up to? With my setup the maximum possible is 330x.
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