Mick wrote:

What I mean is, at 100 X's Mars is to appear as the moon does unaided.
The two are supposedly equivalent. (1/2 degree) Now, if you up the anti
to 200, Mars should be equivalent of what the moon would appear to be
at 100 X's....in the EP.

No it shouldn't. What others have said to you is correct. Read and
understand it; don't just dismiss it because you don't like it. It is a
tad disrespectful to ask a question then just dismiss the responses you
get in this manner. Restating your original error in different words
will not make it correct, no matter how many times you do it.

At x200 Mars will have an apparent diameter of about a degree. At x100
the Moon will have an apparent diameter of about 50 degrees. There is
exactly no way in which these can be equivalent.

Best,
Stephen

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