Sunday, February 13, 2011

Very pleasant astro session last night - a half moon meant there were no chances to make out more of Camelopardalis, but I got a beautiful view of Praesepe (M44) looking like a patch of spilt diamonds in the 40mm. This wide field, low magnification eyepiece has been well worth what I paid for it. Then over to Orion to work on the Trapezium - I'm getting quite good at locating stars and then keeping them in field while I change up through the eyepieces to the 9mm. When I first started I would always lose them to drift during the changeover.

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