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Originally Posted by gazob
Good views till 11:30 tonight,
Earlier in the night had fixed the alignment on the finder scope as best I could, the furthest unique object I could spot was still bigger then the fov of the 9mm eyepiece. Not to worry, near enough is good enough and all that.
Concentrated around Orion and came across a green cloud and a small cluster of stars worked out it was most likely m42, filled the 15mm eyepiece nicely.
Jupiter by this stage had risen above the garage enough for some more looks, easier to site as the finder scope was close enough for the 15mm, and bar lowing the 9mm gave some better, if not a bit wavery views.
Clouds started rolling through about 11:30 so called it a night, would like to get a look at the moon but it will be a few hours after rise before its high enough in the sky to clear the neighbours on that side, so will leave the moon till it rises at a more respectable time.
M42 was quite nice anything else around comparable to tracker down over the next few nights?
GaZ
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Gaz
When aligning the finder, use the lowest power eyepiece ie the one with the longest focal length, will make life a lot easier. I usually use a TV aerial during the day(of course being very careful not to point anywhere near the sun!!).
Malcolm