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The night of the drag race was between the two 10" Maks & the 9" Santel. We fluked a night of extraordinary seeing. To make this as even a race as possible, the eyepieces we used were all interchanged between all three scopes. Most interesting out of this interchange was how individual eyepieces impart different hues to the image. It wasn't the scopes influencing colour but the eyepieces as the hue variations followed the eyepieces, not the scopes.
Mars was a couple of weeks out from opposition this night with Vallis Marineris in full view. OMG! The image looked like you could stick your finger down the gorge & feel all the ripples! In all the combined years of observing between the three of us we had NEVER seen Mars like this. The image of Mars we saw that night for me ranks along side my first view of Saturn. What these scopes can do in such a compact package is extraordinary.
There's a 16" Mak up for grabs too...
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