More fun last night with the ED-2. Much cooler (20 degrees) and better seeing. Saturn lacked contrast but was still very bright - but the mount proved too wobbly - particularly with a strong Easterly breeze - to keep it on for long. I gave up and tried the moon. This time I just zeroed in, focussed and let the moon drift across. Pointing into the wind was much better. Definitely some boiling on the edges of the moon and intermittently on the surface. The seeing was really not quite up to it
, and no doubt there was that kidney bean effect. As somebody else said - took about 30 seconds to get used to it. I pulled up and old chair and sat on the back and relaxed. Occasionally anoying floaters or other debris would swim in and out of view. The main thing is too ignore them and they go away. The terminator was fantastic and the individual craters were amazing. I will try it out again later on Jupiter and Mars. Meanwhile the edges do not seem to blur or go out of focus which is nice (but the tube is F8). Gosh if I had a telescope that could track properly without acting like a windvane!...That new scope cannot come soon enough!
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