Had an opportunity to use my scope this evening, I only used if from my balcony as my right leg is giving me pain and im tired, hence quick look.
Now the question is am I expecting too much? If you read on please tell me.
So from my balcony, about 200 mtrs from the beach with an on shore breeze I set up my Nexstar 6SE and had a look at Jupiter ( only had my scope for 2 months and this is my 3rd viewing, been cloud cover for weeks ) the sky only had a few clouds here and there and accordingnto SkippySky.com seeing conditions were 7 and Transparency was 5 to 6.
According to the Pickering scale
http://www.damianpeach.com/pickering.htm
I would estimate that seeing was 5 to 6.
My collimation looks good to me.
With my 25mm I saw Jupiter as a nice clear disk and saw the two main bands which looked a light brownish to pink colour, the moons looked like stars flickering and not sharp pin points.
With my X-Cel LX 9mm I could not see any more detail than than the 25mm and Jupiter appeared somewhat blurry, fuzzy, not a sharp image at all.
I experienced the results with my other EP's 20mm 6mm and barlow X2
The Moon looked good in my 25mm 20mm and 9mm LX
Now I appreciate that the higher you go in mag the dimmer the view, but is it normal to have these fuzzy views? Or should you expect the image of Jupiter to be crisp in the 9mm LX?
I must say overall I am unhappy about this as the EP's are expensive and I really thought that I would get a crisp image with the celestron X Cel LX.
So can you please tell me is this normal ? If not what could be the problem?
With better viewing conditions will jupiter ( and mars etc ) still be somewhat blurry?
Any comments will be a help.
Thanks,
ian