Thread: What Magnification do you need to see detail on Mars?
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Old 25-December-2007, 01:25 AM
Kyle Edwards Kyle Edwards is offline
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Originally Posted by Arcane View Post
I am using an 8" dob and I had a 10mm lens with the 2.8x Klee barlow. I don't know exactly how that breaks down in to magnification numbers, but I would think I should at least be able to have a pretty decent picture of Mars with it, or am I wrong?
That's strange because I can see a clearly discernible disk and sometimes dark markings with my Orion 70mm refractor with a 2x barlow and 10mm Plossl. Are you sure that you had Mars and not Capella or Aldebaran?
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