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Did my first early morning gig for ages today as well , mainly to check Jupiter,mars and the moon but couldnt resist visiting old friends like M104, jewel box ,eta carinea etc etc.
ill have to check ngc2438 in M46 again ,dont remember seeing it . My favourite is NGC 2362 among the list you gave Mike , the bright star in the centre is very striking .
Mars had a noticable but small disk through a 9mm i used at F/10, no chance of making out any surface detail . The moon was great this morning, could use some high mag and concentrated on the mare imbrium region with the apenninus and caucasus mountain ranges . Didnt have any refernce maps to check on named features but near the crater Cassini {interesting feature that has 2 crater impacts inside the main one}or thereabouts is a rugged landscape that looked really good with the shadow and light play. towards the centre i noted a real distinctive ravine that ill try and capture with the LPI.
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