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I had a quick look this morning with my Tak FC100D at the Mars, Saturn and the Moon.
Mars is still high in the sky and ideally placed for observation. The polar ice cap was still prominent. Using 148x, I thought it had shrunk a little from last week and the dark band below the cap did not seem as obvious. Other marking did not really show.
Saturn has become too low to see well at 6am and was badly affected by the seeing. I best forget about it as being a morning planet.
The Moon was placed with the straight wall and Plato both being on the terminator. Only the rim of Plato could be seen, as the floor was covered by shadow.
I enjoyed my quick look, especially since I could not observe last night because of clouds.
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