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Originally Posted by mbyrr
Ha, well there you go. Not sure what I was looking at then. It definitely wasn't the moon, I would have burned my eyes out without a moon filter, especially through a barlow, right, even if the moon had shrunk to that size miraculously somehow!
I'll have another look tonight, if I can get home early enough before it falls below the rooftops to the west...
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If it was a REALLY bright object in the western sky, then it is Venus, should show a partial crescent at the moment I think.
BTW, a barlow will not make objects brighter, it actually makes them appear larger which actually dims them. Obviously if you double the moons apparent size, you spread the light over 4 times the area so you dim it by 4 times.
Only a larger aperture will make an object brighter.
Cheers
Malcolm