Patrick wrote:
I'm looking forward to seeing Saturn through the big refractor.
Saturn was particularly good last Saturday. With anal retentive collimation I was able to bump up a 10" Newt to 300 power using a 4 mm TMB ep and see a great level of detail on Saturn's disk - many cloud bands on the disk and the major divisions in the rings. Didn't notice the Saturn "white spot" refered to in this April 20 image taken by Greek uber imager George Tarsoudis, but the spot could have rotated out of view. http://www.lunar-captures.com/saturn2008/080420_saturn_spot_tar.jpg - Kurt PS - (I didn't get around to resetting the cone error adjustment after recollimating over the winter, so the GOTO pointing of the mount was not useable on the Virgo galaxies. Reset the cone error on Sunday afternoon.) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ