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Hunting trip.
I just got back. I drove a few klicks out of town and set the dobs up out on the bitumen, and watched the moon set through a boiling heat haze over the hills as the mirror cooled. Its a good spot. You can't see a single artificial light at all. No cloud with 1/2 knot wind, and hardly any fog / mist. But the seeing was only 7 out of ten, with occasions of 8. But despite that I managed to find most of the NGC stuff between Virgo and Corvus. The wife came with me and she thought M104 looked cool as did the Milky Way. I finally ended up putting a 4mm plossl in the 2.5 barlow and was surprised with how well it worked on defining Rigel Ken and its friend. Have to do stuff in before midday, so come home. I think I'll have another go tonight as well.
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