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I am slowly cleaning off the rust, and got the scope out to show my son (6) a few things. He's doing space this term at school and was pretty pumped to see Io (he has a thing about volcanos - Io and Enceladus are fascinating to him). We viewed Saturn, Moon, Jupiter, Acrux, Jewel Box, Omega Cen, Alpha Cen. This was all around 7:30 and seeing wasn't too bad (all this was with 101mm and a 5mm Nagler).
Tried to find M4 but at 100x I got lost. I now see I was a little too far west. LOL. Rust...
Encouraged, I went back out later and spent a bit of time with the 3-6mm zoom and Saturn held up well at 180x. Easy Cassini and 2-3 bands visible.
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