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Old 24-07-2018, 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by gaseous View Post
Good luck Aaron. In fairness to the scope, the only time I tried it on planets was a night my collimation was a bit off, so with that corrected and maybe an aperture mask, hopefully the views will be good like Graeme had.
Here's my aperture mask!

My local seeing is truly rubbish most of the time and it kills definition across a large mirror surface. The aperture mask certainly helps sharpen up the image when those stars are twinkling and reduces glare of that scattered light. On the very odd occasion though, the seeing firms up and a 20" view of the planets is truly stunning
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