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Originally Posted by RichardK
My new scope arrived 2 weeks ago! 8" DOB.
First night tracked down Saturn, the jewel box and a nice star cluster (somewhere in the sky  ).
Afew questions;
1. I say two bright irradescent green shooting stars (not in scope) - any ideas what they might be. They were very bright and the unusaul colour. I am used to seeing bright 'white' shooting stars of much less intensity and further up in the atmosphere.
2. Also can anyone suggest say 3 - 4 very easy things to search for as I am a bit rusty on what is about this time of year.
3. Also I am having good success with the 25mm Posl but once I got saturn in view I couldn't see anything with the 9mm. Is there not enough light coming into the EP, should I reserve it for the moon or .........
Once again thanks in advance and its nice to be out in the cool of the evening looking at the sky again.
Richard
Feluga via Tully |
Eta Carina is a wonderful (and large) spectacle with low magnification, maybe 5 degrees west of crux, high in the southern sky.
M5 and M6 just near the sting in the tail of Scorpius in the eastern sky.
Try downloading Stellarium (free) for whats on show and when.
25 to 9mm is a fairly big shift, requiring a lot of refocussing, and a much tighter field of view, perhaps as bluestar says it has drifted out of field of view by time refocussed. It moves pretty quick at that high magnification.
Or maybe just the seeing was not good enough to be able to support that much magnification on the night.
Keep going.