Excellent. Clouded out here, unfortunately. Hopefully I'll get a view over the next day or so as Mars slips close by M22.
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Originally Posted by Tropo-Bob
There was a wonderful, low power view this morning with Mars, Saturn & M22 all being in the same field of my Vixen ED 102mm (F6.5) with a 30mm plossl. Mars and Saturn appeared to be about 2 degrees apart.
Mars was more 'egg' shaped than I had every previously seen it. Some markings very vaguely visible at 104x.
M22 appeared more interesting in the moonlight than I expected. The fainter stars within the cluster disappeared leaving only the brighter stars. The appearance was like an incredibly rich open cluster rather than a globular.
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