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    Observing the Moon with a spotting scope

    I don't know exactly how it was before but the scope has been fixed in the Zeiss repair, because it fell with the tripod and it's objective lens cracked and so was replaced. Maybe the scope went through more precise adjustment than out of the factory new ones, who knows? Nevertheless the star...
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    Observing the Moon with a spotting scope

    My 883 sample is not perfect but pretty good still. If I remember correct I measured 1.41" resolution at 96x magnification. Maybe using 145x would make it even little better as my own vision is just 20/20, haven't tried though. In a good seeing the 145x is subjectively perfectly sharp for the...
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    Observing the Moon with a spotting scope

    Couple of days ago I took my Kowa TSN 883 spotting scope to see the Moon as it was very high on the night sky. Seeing was very good so I installed APM 3.5mm XWA 1.25" astro eyepiece to have about 145x magnification and the view was very crisp, lots of detail to be seen. APM 3.5 XWA has very...
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