Ryan Rudnicki wrote: >What is the minimum magnification required to resolve Mir? A couple of years ago I watched pass of Mir with my home-built 8-inch Dobsonian from the Blue Ridge in Wintergreen VA. Thanks to the design of this scope I was able to track Mir by hand for about 30 seconds at a mag- nification of about 48X. It showed a very apparent "T"-shaped outline... I would suspect based on this observation that a power of around 25X would begin to show structure. TTFN Geoff +=====================================================================+ & Geoff Chester Albert Einstein Planetarium nasep007@sivm.si.edu & &=====================================================================& & "Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand & & miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules--and still & & there are some misfits who insist that there is no such & & thing as progress" & & --Ransom K. Fern & +=====================================================================+ & http://www.nasm.edu/GALLERIES/gal201.html & +=====================================================================+