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Originally Posted by ausastronomer
Rod, Do you recall the night at Kulnurra when 5 of us stayed after the rain and everyone else departed? That night when the weather cleared the seeing was superb and we had wonderful views of Jupiter and Saturn in my scope at 450X. Those are the type of conditions you need to split Gamma Circini, sub arc second seeing with a well collimated well cooled scope, which doesn't happen all that often. I have no doubt had we tried to split Gamma Circini that night in my scope, we would have split it.
CS-John B
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John, I do indeed remember that night!....let's make a mental note to try to achieve that split next time we have good seeing (and when Circinus is suitably positioned).
