SingAstro

Yeah no disagreeing with you.. I am using a ZOC mirror too..

Nice report! "IMHO, the excellent OMI mirror perhaps held up against the Zambuto quality-wise, but the comparison showed that once again aperture wins as I could readily see more details in the features of Mars through the 15" dob. And the colour saturation was better too." Regarding ...

Wow what an adventure. Guess next time cannot ob at that same spot! Cool you managed to catch the mountains!

Your scope should have no issues resolving these feature too. Just need the right sky conditions. Anyway, Saturn looks fantastic now with it's glorious rings wide open.

It has been a fruitful Mars observation

Attached is a sketch on 12 April.
http://postimg.org/image/5lamld74x/

Tonight (25 April) I was able to catch Olympus Mons and three other mountains @ 530x! Awesome view.
http://postimg.org/image/vtppis66d/

Yes if the object is like a dot and moves quite fast it is a orbiting satellite. Once few years back, I had the amazing view of this 'dot' that transited across Saturn. I was at 416x magnification and I followed the 'dot' and behold, it uncloaked itself! Probably sunlight retro-reflected it and it r...

Nice images

Looking at images online, there is a South Polar Cap. However there seems to be a big cloud over it too and that is why appears larger than the northern polar cap. From the observation, the south white portion does not have a distinct line around it unlike the northern polar cap; so I guess it is a ...

Tonight the seeing was pretty good. Managed to use 530x magnification with sharp image of Mars; using 12.5" Obsession Telescope with Zambuto mirror + 2x TV barlow + 6 Delos. Attached is a sketch of what I have made. Pretty good details and happy with the view. :) http://postimg.org/image/5pupos...

That is good news. Yes Mars is still so small. Observed it more than a month back with my 12.5 inch.