The nerd was out in the dark last night. I finally got around to borrowing the telescope from the Wellington Astronomical Society this week, and took it for a test run on the deck last night.
It is a 6′ Newtonian, which will something to the occasional person in the audience.
I found Saturn and was so pleased when it worked. The image was there, small admittedly but palnet and the rings visible-brill. It was not a great night fro the stars as too many clouds, but success all te same. So more nerdy nigths in the pipeline.
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Cool ! Biggest mistake that people make is that telescope will make planets / stars enormous….they can, but you need to upgrade Newtonion to Hubble (may be going cheap soon ……)
Had one more outing last nihgt and cuaght anoher larger glipse of saturn with greater magnifying eypiece, and close up of moon-good stuff