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Originally Posted by Rodstar
Hey Paul, Welcome to IIS! I notice that you have just posted for the first time.
I had a look at your website....very cool. I laughed when I saw you have a penchant for observing lists (just like me).
I notice you do a lot of your observing at about 115x. I find that to be an excellent magnification as well, although with my recent increase in aperture to 20", I am planning to get a 17mm Nagler + Paracorr, which should give me about 170x. AT the moment I use a 22 Panoptic as my workhorse, and it gives about the same mag as you seem to enjoy.
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Thanks for looking.
There has been a lot of people from Ice in Space joining my Yahoo Group NZ Astronomers fin recent weeks, so I thought I better have a look. What an excellent community.
I still think that if you can get a combination of about 100x to 120x with your new scope, you will use this combination more, than 170x. This is mainly to do seeing and preference though.
The seeing here in NZ is regularly average to poor and I like the steadier views of the lower power and FOV.
Paul Kemp
13.1" Reflector
Auckland, New Zealand
36° 55' 09" South, 174° 43' 30" East
-- The Southern Sentinel --
Website http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~michellekemp