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Originally Posted by Tropo-Bob
WOW! These are really close. Its like a visual double, a bright white and a lesser red.
Using a 120x ortho EP, I can comfortable fit both in the same field of view.
All Jupiter's Moons are strung out to one side, and Mars is roughly perpendicular to them, but only a about 2.5 times the visual distance as from Jupiter to outermost Callisto. Very impressive.
Although Mars is the less bright of the two, when I view it through the scope, it can be seen that it is brighter per unit of its surface area. There is just so much less of it.
No detail seen on Mars at 120x. Conditions are only fair. There is the largest ring around the Moon that I have ever noticed; over 20 degrees in radius. So more rain is probably on the way.
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This was the impression I got too Bob; like a giant double double with Zubenelgenubi, in the binos or 24Pan in the Refractor, with Jupiters moons to one side in my 10.5 x45 ED Binos... and a rather pinky looking Mars hardly any detail in the scope except on Jove, as I stayed Up till 330 am, it was only very low over the City skyline with Jupiter just below..an impressive sight !
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