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Leavitt's First Light

I finally used my new 8" telescope with a working mirror cell! Report: Jupiter is nice and bright! M42 is so much brighter than in my first telescope! It’s green and I can the bat wings and texture in the trapezium along with four stars! There are so many stars everywhere! High power reveals flaws. High power stars look like ovals. After some investigation, my secondary mirror wasn’t centered in the eyepiece view. Read More