A few of us were having a good time doing binocular astronomy. There was an
Orion 25x100. It gave good images. They are amazingly inexpensive for such a
big binocular. I was using my Canon 15x50 and Zeiss 10x42FL most of the night.
I could just make out M104 with my 10x42s. We were lower on the hill than MB.
I didn't think I would see M104 with that much light near by.
Zeiss has come out with a smaller version of their FLs. The Zeiss 8x32FL has had
very good reviews. It has a very wide field for an 8x and weighs less than 20oz.
Rich
> Yes, it was very nice.
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> > I thought the seeing was good tonight.
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> > Initially, I had planned on testing the altered-300D on the 8" schmidt-newt,
> > but it turns out there are some backfocus issues I need to work out. (doh!)
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> > So I pointed the thing at jupiter and saturn, and oh my, do the planets look
nice.
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> > (Must be that bay effect kicking in that gives palo alto sub-arcsecond seeing.)
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Received on Wed Apr 6 03:07:03 2005