Mr Spock

Moon looked great from here this morning. Sadly the only view I had was on the way to work.

Looks good but it's too far to travel there and back in a day. For me anyway - I enjoyed the IAS, which was a similar distance, but was really tired when I got home.

Very nice. I like the natural colours.

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You can compare the brightness to others nearby. Standard variable star observing technique. Here's a comparison chart from CdC

I make it just a mite brighter than halfway between 1.2 and 1.6. So, around 1.4, maybe even a fraction brighter.

Might be the conditions, but I'm seeing it a tenth brighter tonight.

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Before reading this, my estimate was 1.5. So I think that's probably about right given others have the same.

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Nice images. No matter how many times you see the moon you always want to see more.

The jetstream is in the the wrong place right now. Those upper atmosphere high speed winds are going to turn everything to mush.

Here's the weekend forecast... 

Looks like you had a great time 👍

44 minutes ago, BigMisterP said:

Praised by who, if no-one knows anything about it?:P

"Highly praised Evostar 80ED has company".

I think you misread the ad 

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That's a fabulous image. You can almost reach out and touch it.

Hi Kevin, welcome to SGL 

With my C9.25 my most used eyepiece on planetary is 10mm. x235 is just about perfect. I'm a strong believer that x1 per mm gives the best ratio of magnification v contrast. Pushing above that generally doesn't reveal any more detail but just makes the image darker and more fuzzy.

I sometimes use an 8mm on the moon when seeing is excellent; those nights are few and far between though.

For deep sky I like to use a 22mm LVW due to it's comfort and sharpness. The C9.25 is never going to be widefield but my 42mm LVW gives just over 1° field of view.

At f10 any quality of eyepiece will be fine.

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