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Shooting the moon

Noticed the moon was nice and clear while it was still light so decided to have a go with the DSLR and SLT102 refractor. Started off quickly aligning using just the moon and the setting lunar as the tracking rate. Watched in a cheap 25mm eyepiece for a while and it was tracking nicely (isn't it always the way - no real effort in the alignment and good results, try hard to get an accurate one and it drifts :p ) Replaced the diagonal with a 50mm extension tube and t adapter to connect the camera.
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Astronomy at OAP home

Friday night I took 2 'scopes and a pair of 15x70 binos to a local OAP home so that some of the more able bodied residents could have a look through them. Took just over an hour to set up - luckily I had arrived in plenty of time to get set up before dark. We started off with the moon through the SLT102 refractor with a 10mm eyepiece. They were surprised by the details in the shadow along the terminator. Unfortunately the moon soon dropped too low for the height of the tripod on the SLT (large
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Notched up a couple more Messier's

Very clear sky at home tonight following some rain and sleet this afternoon. There was already a thick icy frost on the cars by 6 o'clock! Went out in the back garden with my Revelation 15x70's to see if I could bag a couple more messier objects. Got two open clusters M34 & M35. They were both clearly visible in the bins. I could also just make out M34 visually. Verified both objects by comparing with pictures in 'Deep Sky Companions: The Messier Object' by O'Meara. Both lovely objects
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