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Out with the 'old' etc
Well folks, you won't recognise my Obs. Until this morning, there wasn't a mount or scope in it - just 2 empty piers. But, since nature and my credit card abhor a vacuum, that situation has changed. One pier now has a 12 1/2 inch f/20 Dall Kirkham on a professional mount that could hold Jessie the elephant - courtesy of James Buckley (Maidenwell Obs). It's going to be my dedicated visual scope for doing lunar and planetary visuals and video. James says that one nights of good seeing, I can push it as high as 100 mags per inch of aperture. Can you imagine Saturn at x1200. Wahoo!!
That'll keep me from going bananas while I wait for the Titan to turn up in September. And then .... well, that's months away.
Peter
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