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Old July 12th 16, 10:07 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
RichA[_6_]
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Default Mars with 3 different scopes - comparison

On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 04:36:34 UTC-4, wrote:
On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 2:20:14 AM UTC-4, StarDust wrote:

Best views of Mars found here!
http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/home/


Those are very detailed, but I prefer the live view as seen through an ordinary Newtonian at ~400x or higher.


Best view I had was through a C14, purportedly with custom optics at about 500x. The detail was sub-0.5 arc second and astonishing to look at.