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Originally Posted by gary
Best object viewed at TSP?
M51 in Larry Mitchell's 36" Dob.
Closest thing I have ever seen visually that looked like
an astrophotograph.
In fact, possibly the best thing I have ever seen in a telescope - period.
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I have to agree with Gary on this. I almost fell off the ladder from about 14 feet in the air. I am also pretty sure some unprintable expletives came from my mouth
Alan Dyer actually got a shot of me up the ladder taking my first ever look at M51, which he used in his presentation on Thursday evening. He is going to email me a copy of it and I will post it here when he does. You will get an idea of how big this scope is, when you see the picture.
Gary and Andrew are travelling North through New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. I have detoured to North West Texas, to the 3RF Astronomy Campus at Comanche Springs near Crowell. As some of you will know, Andrew and I are Australian volunteers for 3RF,
http://www.3rf.org/astronomy.htm . Some of the scopes at Comanche Springs are a 15" observatory class refractor and a 30" Obsession. I plan to do some lunar observing with the 15" refractor tonight and after the moon sets I will use the 30" Obsession on DSO's.
Gary/Andrew, sorry about passing on the bug. Not much I could do to avoid this.
CS-John B