George has the imaging setup running and we are in a warm control room

What fun.

I ran outside and looked at m42 outside through the binocular telescope and then through his c14. It's only about 4 degrees out.

M42 looked nice through the little binocular telescope, but it looks so much brighter with the c14.

He had the field reducer on it. With a 7mm eyepiece and 2500mm as the focal length we had 350 power at the higher power when looking at it. That brought it close enough to see two additional stars in the trapezium or six stars altogether.

That was enough for direct viewing. We came back in and I warmed up a bit before leaving.


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