ATM 6" final update!

[Viper71049@aol.com]

Hello,

I have been testing my recently polished 6" telescope for about 5 days. The weather 
tonight suddenly cleared up after an afternoon of rain. The last past days it was either 
cloudy of my eyepieces have been fogging up so I couldnt really test. The moon was right 
below jupiter, sort of, so I didnt expect my images to be all that great. I turned to 
jupiter with my 17mm eyepiece at 67x and wow! it was breathtaking. I saw four Jovian 
moons and 2 bands on jupiter, I then boosted to my 10mm eypiece at 113x and wow! even 
better still razor sharp and could extreme detail! The color was awseome. I boosted it up 
to an even higher 4mm at 282x and wowWww! Extreme detail and jupiter was BIG! the detail 
was superb. This is a mag of 47x per inch of aperture. I know this rates excellent 
according to Mel Bartels webpage and this isnt even aluminized! I saw saturns two 
divisions. This is 10x better than my 4.5" commercial reflector and it is aluminized. I 
just want to know what you think of this!
 and what do you think my wavefr
ont is. It is fully parabolic. under ronchi it is smooth and sweeps. Is this good? How 
much mag do you think I can go higher?

Tony