Neptune and Mars

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[Stu]

Fantastic video, which of your beasts was this through? Which smartphone? Thanks for posting.

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It was through the 28" f4 Webster dob, 3.7mm Ethos eyepiece and iPhone 8 on a televue eyepiece/smartphone holder. The Jetstream at the time was at its worst and there was high level cloud all over the sky, some wind buffeting too. I would have probably gone with a 2x powermate as well if the seeing had been better. Still to the eye at the eyepiece it was quite a sight, blue green disc of Neptune certainly contrasted well compared to orange red ice capped Mars.

 

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