In a message dated 1/7/2003 8:30:47 PM Pacific Standard Time,
natscher@No-Spam writes:
> everything in the eyepiece at 100X looks terrible. I
> can't tell the stars from anything else that's on a list. The Trapezium
> looks like M8, the Lagoooon. Saturn now looks like M1.
Well, I take back my earlier post. After half an hour of scope cooldown
time, I went back out to the scope and the sky is awful. Saturn looks like
I'm observing from the bottom of a full swimming pool. Yuck. I'll give it
another try in 30 minutes.
Richard