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Perth Observatory was really cool too! I'd recommend it to anyone. The people that ran the viewing night were hilariously funny. Probably spent more time laughing than viewing.
3 scopes were used: 12" SCT - dome, 16" SCT - dome, 12" EQ Newt - shed with roll off roof.
The Newt's optics were not that great and the electronic focuser on the 16" SCT was shocking, but when manual focused all was good. If the two SCT did the job quite well.
The things I viewed (3 groups of ~10 people rotated with each scope) were:
- 47Tuc through the 12" SCT
- Eta Carina through the 16" SCT
- Saturn through the 12" Newt
- M42 (orion neb) through the 12" SCT
- Tarantula Neb though the 16" SCT (dam good)
- THE JEWEL BOX in crux (whoo hooo! my favorite! To bad the scope made a mess of it) through the 12" Newt.
Hopefully I get some viewing in while in canberra.
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