Re: Observing Plato's craterlets with smallish scopes
- From: "Martin R. Howell" <martinhowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:24:58 -0700
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:52:32 -0700 (PDT), Brian Tung wrote:
My experience is similar to David. I saw the central craterlet as such
in my 5-inch SCT under excellent seeing conditions, at a low solar
angle, and was able to detect, trivially, the Big Four with ordinary
seeing, at a high solar angle, with the same telescope.
I can see the "bowl" of the central craterlet, IIRC, under good seeing with
my 12.5 inch dob. This is much as Rod Mollise stated. I am not sure I see
much of them at all with a moon at, or just past, full. The 9 day old moon
seems to work best for me. Then again, I hardly qualify as much of a lunar
observer. I am just starting to turn my attention to it now as my dark
skies have been ruined by that "roundabout" thing I cited a few months
back.
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