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Old 04-07-2012, 07:17 PM
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make: Eden Optics. f/5. (1m length from prime to focuser) 10mm Meade ploessl.

checked it tonight:
after fine focusing with the 10mm, I could make out the bright Saturn as a bit bigger needle pin and a tiny bright plane around it - just ever so little in distant to the planet. it was more a "knowing" that there is a ring than actually seeing it.
so, an oblong tiny blob with a shadow of a doubt...

during focusing in with the 10mm, I noticed that Saturn showed the concentric circles like the manual says it should when properly colimated one particular mirror. (don't remember which mirror, now.)
that was spot on textbook.

btw: the focuser itself was ruled "trash" by the previous owner who had gotten himself a crayford (?) and was happy with it. (he kept the crayford)

unfortunately, since I joined them, the astronomy club here had to cancel all star parties (my joining was not the reason ).
I have not seen through any telescope before and don't know what to expect.
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