Hi all! The last couple of nights we've had great viewing of Jupiter and it's four moons through our Celestron C8 with standard eyepiece - no barlows yet.
In the S/SW skies, there's the orangey-glowey star that I've assumed to be Mars, so last night swung the scope around to it... however... through the eyepiece, it still appears to be just a orangey-glowey star (forgive the terminology) so I was wonderiong, is it actually Mars? If it is, is it not going to be viewable without a barlow type lense? I thought that it would be at least as large as we're getting Jupiter (albeit pea sized through standard eyepiece) - what should my expectations be?
Many thanks!
Tim