Matthew Marcus
So you were down to 8", huh? Welcome to my world :-)
Anyway, I was helping out with public observing at Lawrence Hall of Science, which is why I wasn't at Lake Sonoma. It was mucky, the seeing was bad, and we only had a couple of customers. All we could show was Saturn, Mars (a blurry orange disk), M44 and M36. Considering that we had an 8" Dob, an 11" Dob and a refractor (~4"?), we had a lot more scope than sky. The fog rolled in around 10, which by that time felt a bit like being on jury duty and being told that the call is over; go home. The few customers we had were duly appreciative of even the poor views of Saturn and the star clusters. It is refreshing to see this stuff, vicariously, through new eyes.
mam
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