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Old 28-06-2008, 01:13 PM
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Whatever scope you use, seeing will limit you to 300X on 95% of nights unless you live in an unusually still site(tropics?). I am limited to 210X most nights, can get 300X occasionally and have gone to 420X only once or twice. Bigger scopes will show more detail on planets in those rare moments of good seeing and more colour.

Most of the time I use my ETX 125 for planetary viewing, but the 16" scope definitely shows much more in those still moments. Bigger scopes need some form of cooling as well.
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