Dang 6 Key keeps sticking;), Gotta admit, that'd be a pretty wide FOV! Clear Skies Rick Tejera Editor SACnews Saguaro Astronomy Club Phoenix, Arizona www.saguaroastro.org saguaroastro@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ketelsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 16:41 To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Thunderbird Park Star Party 10 May 2008 Hey, I want one of them 0mm focal length eyepieces! I set up at UA mall as part of the festivities in front of Flandrau Planetarium (Tucson). I didn't hear anyone mention Mercury! It was looking great last night - dozens of folks saw it thru my 14" showing a phase very similar to that of the moon. After that got too low, I did similar to Tom - set it to 450X and showed them craters on the moon's terminator. A lot of them noticed the central mountains inside the medium-sized craters prompting discussions of how they formed (no, not volcanic, which was their first guess it seemed). -Dean > While I wouldn't exactly call it difficult, I spent a good deal of time on > Al-Geiba in Leo. With my 0mm Ortho Public eyepiece and 2x Barlow at 120x > it > showed as two very close stars of about equal magnitude & color. Most > folks > were able to split it easily and said that hey saw one star as slightly > brighter. > -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list. -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.