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Spent some time last night viewing Spica, using the little 50x500 frac.
Nice and sharp in both the 25mm Kellner and 12.5mm HA eyepieces.
The 'gun sight' finder on it though, is an utter pain to use, in comparison to a red dot finder.
Using my binocs, a small group of stars in Centaurus caught my eye. The upside down tilted T like formation of the following stars.
i Centauri / 1 Centauri / HIP 67153
g Centauri / 2 Centauri / HIP 67457
k Centauri / 3 Centauri / HIP 67669 A
h Centauri / 4 Centauri / HIP 67786
The Southern Cross, the pointers Rigil Kentaurus and Hadar, and δ Centauri and γ Centauri, were all blocked by the trees, when I tried to view them in my Heritage P130. They were all nicely visible in my binocs though, so I spent more time using my binocs viewing them.
The sole target I could reliably line up on in my P130 was Spica.
Unfortunately the mosquitoes cut short what should have been a good, long, evening's viewing.
edit: fix typo
Last edited by JeniSkunk; 21-03-2020 at 11:10 AM.
Reason: fix typo
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