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Old 13-03-2005, 11:10 AM
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Moonman (Michael)
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Thumbs up Jupiter

Dear all

Managed to get some reasonble views of Jupiter with good magnifcation using my saxon 740mm with a barlow magnifier. I struggled for some time now to get anything other than a massive blur usi ng the barlow but a bit of patience paid off.
The resolution was still slightly blurry compared with low magnification but I could still make out the major cloud bands.

Calibrating the finder lense during daytime using some chimney stacks about a km away improved my ability to quickly find and maintain the desired target

Regards Moonman
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