Bill--

I barlow a 7mm Nagler on my 18"--actually a little less than 800x. A
friend with a 20" Obsession showed me it could be done with surprising
results--his is at 800x-- if the seeing is good. My dark site is 100
miles north of Dallas in the boonies of Oklahoma. Jason Ware and some of
the other club photographers have taken some pretty good astropics at
the site so from time to time we have some pretty good skies.

Andy

Bill Arnett wrote:
>
> At 11:52 AM -0500 4/21/99, Andy Wallace wrote:
> >Bill-
> >
> >Do you use an electric focuser?
>
> Yes and it helps a LOT.
>
> >I routinely go to 800x on my 18" Obsession ...
>
> Wow! Either you have wonderful seeing or you like fuzzy images :-)
> Where are you located?
>
> Bill Arnett
> http://www.seds.org/billa/
> "I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search
> out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch
> the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of
> ambrosia, the food of the gods." -- Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)

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