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Thanks Ian, & Merry Christmas! Don't know if it was the scope so much as the conditions. It didn't last long - the crescent moon had not long gone down, the sky was inky black, myriads of stars blazed without a twinkle right across the whole sky, and the Milky Way was magnificent. I managed to grab quick views of some favourites before the transparency dropped off - M42 was astonishing, like views I'd seen in much larger scopes, & 47Tuc superb. Even the Crab, quite low to the horizon, showed as a decent smudge.
Cheers -
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