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Originally Posted by Troy.k
Great views tonight sky's are so clear, Saturns rings and the detail in Jupiter blew me away, even spotted Jupiters 4 moons they were so bright l didn't expect that. Had a good look at Mars, made me wish I had the scope when Mars was at its closest just recently.
I was using the 9mm plossl that came with my scope, how much more magnification could I use??
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I know! I had my 12" our earlier and the views from Eltham were awesome!
Later on I took my 4" Tak refractor up in Whittlesea and the views were terrible. At first I thought that it was that the telescope needed to cool longer than 10 minutes but the views degraded dramatically 20 minutes later. Packed up by 11:45 as Mars has turned from boiling with large surface details visible to it being nothing more than a fuzzy red blob.
Staggering how poor the seeing became over a few hours.