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Old 27-02-2018, 05:59 PM
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I’ll join in too Joe.
Last night was sort of OK here in Melbourne...E star in the trap visible but not the F in my 6”f12 Acho and piggybacked 3.5” f11.1 acrho.

I had a go at Altinak which was an easy split with both scopes mounted on my 2” ATM pillow block EQ mount I built a couple of years back.

Sirius was split by both but the 3.5” with 6mm UOVT Ortho showed less scatter than the 6”f12 with Morpheus 6.5mm....swapping them around showed the Ortho has the ‘better’ view...not by much though.I have a TEC turret on the 3.5” with 18 12.5 9 7 and 6mm Orthos in, so it is easy to swap around....better than a zoom IMO.

Rigel....dead easy in both. That was it.

Tonight I’ll try a few less easy ones. Haven’t had the scope out since October last year...it’s been a while.

Matt
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