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Originally Posted by flatbutt

Have you seen Mars? I hope the clear skies last until the new moon.

Many years ago when I still had my 8" dob, I had a good night of seeing and Mars was up. I think I was able to get to about 300x mag. Wow, polar ice caps and the canals, that was very cool. Unfortunately, I've never owned a scope when Saturn was at a good angle to see the rings that well. I bought my old scope just before it went edge-on. I have also seen the GRS on Jupiter as well as some of the detail/turbulence in the bands. Very cool stuff.