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Old 08-07-2008, 03:12 PM
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Markus, I live less than 10km from Brisvegas. I too have a 12" and my favourite combination for viewing Saturn and Jupiter is my Baader Hyperion zoom on the 12mm setting with a 2x barlow (1500mm fl).
If my calculations are correct, thats 250x and the views are fantastic. Things start getting fuzzy on the 8mm setting though.

Having said that, most of my views of Jupiter this year have been pretty ordinary due to atmospheric conditions (especially the clouds!).
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