Anybody watching the eclipse tonight? It's supposed to start in about an hour or so. I'm setting up on my back patio with my little Orion 4.5 inch dob. So far I've managed a couple of halfway decent shots thru the Scope using my I-Phone. I hope to be able to get a couple of the "blood moon" if I can persuade myself to stay up that late. Damn work

Mars is a spectacular sight thru the scope with the naked eye as well. The seeing here in Phoenix is pretty decent and using 90x magnification it's a nicely defined disk with some dark splotchy surface patches just visible to the naked eye. Even a slight hint of a polar cap.

- Peter.

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