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Old 26-02-2006, 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by ausastronomer
The 5 of us enjoyed some memorable high power views of Jupiter and Saturn. The GRS was clearly visible. About 2:30am the seeing got even better, I was able to hold a lovely rock steady image of Jupiter at 454X and the same power on Saturn with an equally clean sharp view....We were also able to get a lovely clean split on Antares as it climbed higher in the sky. CS-John B
Wish I had stayed, John. You never can tell, that's the luck of this hobby, it can work either way. Man, I would have loved to see Jupiter at x450. You would have been continuously moving the scope to keep up with the big critter!
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