Seeing is everything

[Saganite]

A few weeks ago a challenge to split Epsilon Lyrae at the lowest power was issued and at that time the best I could do was 64X (  I believe) with my Tak FC100. The sky tonight is pretty stable and so I started with the same challenge and straight away, using a Nagler 13 T6, the split at 57X was very clear, so in went a 16 Nagler T5 and still a pretty good split at 46x. I feel that I could go lower, at least a bit lower, but I do not have a close enough eyepiece to do so.

The moon is now reasonably high so that will be the target for the rest of this session.

[Merlin66]

Well done!

I'd say x46 is getting close to the limit. Beats my x49 with the Genesis......

 

[Saganite]

4 minutes ago, Merlin66 said:

Well done!

I'd say x46 is getting close to the limit. Beats my x49 with the Genesis......

 

I would agree, it is just a pity that I had nothing else to try. The stable atmosphere was definitely the deciding factor compared to last time. The vertical pair split more cleanly than the horizontal pair.