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And we actually had a great time observing with Ben's scope after checking things out, then collimating. The seeing was amazingly good and the optics were performing well. We started on the Moon and got to a 5mm Planetary eyepiece in a 3x barlow for a 720x view!! - and it held up well! We pulled 47 Tuc and NGC 253 out of a Moonlit, Sydney light-polluted sky, faint but recognisable, then moved to Jupiter as some clouds were rolling in, but not before we had seen one of these dark patches sitting on one of the equatorial bands - very distinctly.
Ben has some nice optics in his 8" Saxon. He just needs to work a bit more on the mechanics to get the movements smoother. And perhaps a better 9-10mm eyepiece. The 25mm was doing a nice job.
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