[AZ-Observing] Re: Vekol on 4-5 Jan 2003
- From: "Brian Page" <brpage@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 14:18:21 -0700
Thanks Rick, that was me. I had my 9.25" SCT trained on Saturn with,
initially, a 22mm Panoptic stacked above a Sirius MV-1 and an Orion
Ultrablock filter, for 105x. This seemed to work great, although neither
filter produced satisfactory views on it's own. I later used this filter
combo with a Pentax XL zoom EP I recently acquired, studying the view at
195x and 295x. These were at least as good at revealing the shape, and a
little of the structure, of M1 behind Saturn. When this experiment first
worked, I was so thrilled that I had to go harass several of my observing
field neighbors until they agreed to come over and take a peek. It really
was a beautiful sight.
Brian Page
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From: "Rick Scott" <rmscott@xxxxxxx>
To: "AZ Observing" <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 1:00 PM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Vekol on 4-5 Jan 2003
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> Earlier in the evening someone (name unknown) had a scope set up with an
> Orion Ultrablock filter stacked with a Minus Violet filter for the best
> view I saw of Saturn and M1. The shape of M1 was very clearly delineated
> from the background with Saturn situated along one edge of the nebula. A
> most impressive sight. I tried it with Mira, my 9.8" f4.6 Lurie-Houghton
> scope, around 7:30pm and was able to see a glow around Saturn from the
> nebula, but no comparison to the view through the scope with the stacked
> filters.
>
> Rick Scott
> http://members.cox.net/rmscott
>
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