hemihaggis

well done ....

hi folks ,

just to let you all know about great service and quick delivery from opticstar in manchester ,

i had spent some time deciding on a few new ep`s or a baader hyperion zoom ... i eventually went for the baader zoom .. so i tried to phone a few of the main suppliers to see if they had a zoom in stock as they were showing them on the websites .. flo , rvo , modern astronomy, scopenskies, greenwitch ,365 astronomy , and a few others .. some i could not even get to pick up the phone - flo

the others were all out of stock and had no idea when they would recive any hyperion zooms from the manufactuer .Bern@modernastronomy at least said he would email baader and get some info from them ..

so i tried one last shop ,opticstar in manchester , they had the zoom in stock !!!! i ordered at 1:30 pm on friday afternoon , and it arrived here in ayrshire at 10am today (sat)

cheers

mm i used to live in braintree , if i was you id save up for a holiday in barra .. lol

Hi

As for actual observing, the rule of thumb is that you can magnify 2x per mm of aperture or 50x per inch or aperture so the maximum magnification your scope can achieve is 100x.

sorry to disagree , but i have found the rule of thumb is more like 1x the mm of the scope , so if you have 100mm scope the max usable mag would be x 100 . but trial and error works even better lol:icon_salut:

hi there , the moon is better to study when it is a small cresent (less than 1/4 of full moon) as the sun shines across the face of the moon casting shadows of mountains craters ect , hope this helps