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Originally Posted by Renato1
Also, as the others have said, other problems to viewing Mars relate to seeing and dust storms on the planet. And seeing can relate to where you live. For decades, from my suburban backyard, surrounded by houses I've easily seen the markings on Mars with my Vixen 102mm APO and even with my 80mm ED refractor.
But since I moved a couple of years ago to a place near the beach, where I am surrounded by 2/3 and one acre blocks, instead of getting the better seeing that I expected compared to my old backyard - well - things have been pretty miserable. Most of the time, 300X now delivers mushy images, whereas at my old place I could happily push 400X reasonably often.
Hopefully, you don't share my predicament - but it could be a factor.
Cheers,
Renato
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Actually, my telescope lives on some acres in a valley with steep escarpments, so I'm sure there's a fair amount of turbulence especially in summer, but there's no or very little light pollution.
I've never brought it up to Sydney to try viewing here, but maybe I should.
Is there something about the sea-land interface that leads to poorer conditions in your case?