Here we go again,
I've read the replies on my report, thanks to all for your input.
I set up the scope last night, had no wind, and the moon did'nt come over the hills until about 10:30 pm., so I had almost 2 hours of dark skies. Frist of all I'd like to say that I strickly do visual observing, the mount I have, I know is inexpensive, that said it preforms very good, there was NO back lash. When I rapped on the scope hard it settled down in 1 second maybe 2 at the very most.
For me this set up is very portable and light weight to set up, considering I'm use to 100lbs set ups.
Anyway on to my report,EP's I used were nagler's 13mm,9mm, 7mm and 2 1/2 powermate. M92 at 277x was bright, elongated could see stars all the way to about 80% of center. M13 at 357x resovled stars all the way to the center, strands of star were very apperent. The dumbell nebula at 277x was huge and bright with hour glass figure, I easily made out 4 stars on the inner edge of the nebula, which I did'nt see the 1st. time I used the scope. Vega at 357x held up pretty good, did'nt really see any color looked blue-white , when the atmosphere was turbulent I saw a slight hint of orange. Moon looked sharp at 357x. Mars was difficult due murky atmospere.
Well thats it for now, clear skies.
Nick T.
I've read the replies on my report, thanks to all for your input.
I set up the scope last night, had no wind, and the moon did'nt come over the hills until about 10:30 pm., so I had almost 2 hours of dark skies. Frist of all I'd like to say that I strickly do visual observing, the mount I have, I know is inexpensive, that said it preforms very good, there was NO back lash. When I rapped on the scope hard it settled down in 1 second maybe 2 at the very most.
For me this set up is very portable and light weight to set up, considering I'm use to 100lbs set ups.
Anyway on to my report,EP's I used were nagler's 13mm,9mm, 7mm and 2 1/2 powermate. M92 at 277x was bright, elongated could see stars all the way to about 80% of center. M13 at 357x resovled stars all the way to the center, strands of star were very apperent. The dumbell nebula at 277x was huge and bright with hour glass figure, I easily made out 4 stars on the inner edge of the nebula, which I did'nt see the 1st. time I used the scope. Vega at 357x held up pretty good, did'nt really see any color looked blue-white , when the atmosphere was turbulent I saw a slight hint of orange. Moon looked sharp at 357x. Mars was difficult due murky atmospere.
Well thats it for now, clear skies.
Nick T.
