Did some work to the 10" today. Replaced the finder scope with the red dot unit, rebalanced it, fitted a glare sheild opposite the focusser. Couldn't find a suitable ground target to align the red dot so had to wait till Jupiter came over the trees. Aligned and played with EPs and the barlow on Jupiter. Seeing was about 3 and transparency about 2. We've had some weird weather over here giving us static cloud mists up high.
Most of the easy clusters etc are dissappearing over my western horizon so targets a bit scattered so had a go for 47 Tuc. My compass alignment and leveling seems quite good because the setting circles put me very close to target. A few sweeps with the 20mm and I found a fuzzy ball. Barlowed it and got a bigger fuzzy ball with a denser core area. I could not separate the inner group from the outer 'ring' but I could find no other sizeable cluster in that region so I am assuming I got the right cluster. I managed to find it with a 2 x barlowed 12 mm but definition and brightness was very reduced although the cluster almost filled the view at that mag, 228 ?
Anyone able to confirm what I saw ? I expected more but as I said LP and mist were not helping and it's not my best sky direction.
