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Hopefully an omen for the future, left my 4.5" newt setup after doing some observing last night before moonrise. When I got up just on 3:00am to view Jupiter and Mars they were nicely placed in a notch between 2 large gum trees. Usually I find things go the other way, whatever I want to see is usually hiding behind a tree, the problem of having large trees on 2.5 sides.
As for Jupiter and Mars, was great to be able to see both and Jupiters moons in the same field of view. At first I was wondering what happened to one of the moons as I could only see 3, a little better focussing and 3 became 4. The problems with having a dicky focusser.
My first time observing an event since resurrecting my scope late last year. Looking forward to 31 January and getting a better scope later this year.
Gary
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