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I don't have a solar scope either myself or to get my paws on. I'd be only doing projection viewing. I'll be using a crappie Hygenian EP I have, air spaced EPs so no glue to foul. Probably the only good use for these EPs. I'd be using my C5, stopped down a little to reduce heat.
I take your point about binary systems. Alpha centuri does get a few 'ooh-aahh's' though, but I wouldn't get technical. Binary's spin me out enough.
I dig the idea of pirate eyepatches.
I've started compiling a trial list of objects:
* Southern cross, show it first so everyone at once gets something to see the can identify from our flag.
* Moon
* Jupiter & its moons
* Omega Centuri, a 'moon' of the Milky Way
* Eta Carina, where stars are being born
* Scorpius, probably the easiest constellation to identify as the object it describes
* M7 or the Jewel Box, M7 being more spectacular but the Jewel Box is in the southern cross.
May have to trim it down.
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