mttafire
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Reged: 02/02/06
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Loc: midwest
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I viewed m13 last night..Great sight..What do you think is the most awsome dso..The ones that are "relatively" easy to see. Mine imho is m13 or orions nebula's.
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John Jarosz
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Reged: 04/25/04
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Loc: Chicago area, IL
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I like M57
John
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David Pavlich
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I would say the Orion Nebula is always near the top of everyone's list. If you're lucky enough to have the horizon, the globular cluster Omega Centauri would have to rank up there at the top. M13 is another favorite of mine. M31 is a neat target because of its shear size and the fact that it's relatively close.
David
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OffTheCouch
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Reged: 11/02/05
Posts: 401
Loc: Dallas, TX
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M22 and M42.
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Happy-Idiot
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Loc: 3rd Rock
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Most impressive Binocular IMHO is M45 Pleiades, small scope IMHO is M42 Great Orion Neb, medium scope IMHO is M57 Ring Neb, Large scope IMHO is M33 Pinwheel Galaxy, impressive imaged dso object IMHO is M16 Eagle Neb and MyCn18 an Hourglass Nebula that looks like Gods eyeball. All impressive but my favorite is M1 Crab Neb and NGC 7662 Blue Snowball i like the challenge.
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edwincjones
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Reged: 04/10/04
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#1 M45
#2 M31 with 32 & 110 in same FOV
#3 M42
in large binoculars.
In telescope, Omega Centauri beats M13.
Naked eye, the Milky Way and/or Crux and Coal Sac.
edj
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gubbenimanen
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Reged: 08/09/05
Posts: 265
Loc: Sweden
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The Milky Way!
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BillFerris
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M17, the Swan Nebula, always makes my heart skip a beat.
Regards - Bill in Flag
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Timothy O'Connor
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For me, its Eta Carinae nebula...
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FirstSight
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For a single object visible in the Northern Hemisphere, globular cluster M13. But in aggregate, the incredible swarm of galaxies in the Virgo region, starting a few degrees behind Denebola (rearmost star in Leo) is the most impressive - if you're under mag 5.0 skies or better, you can wander around this region and frequently come across 2, 3, 4, or more at least moderately bright galaxies in a medium-widefield eyepiece all at once. If you think about the enormous scale of distances to, across, and between multiple galaxies you're taking in all in the same field of view, it's approaching infinity for any purposes of human comprehensibility.
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matt gray
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Reged: 12/17/04
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Loc: Butte county, CA
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With a dark sky, and a scope over 10", I'd vote for M51.
Otherwise it's got to be M42.
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matt
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Jim52
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Reged: 01/18/04
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Loc: Kirkland.Illinois
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I'm partial to the Lagoon Nebula,M8. It's not as impressive as the Orion Nebula, but at least it's warmer out! Also partial to M1 for different reasons. It's NGC number is the year I was born! Jim
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SaberScorpX
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Loc: illinois, usa
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M42 or M8, depending on time of year.
Eta Carinae from more southern lats.
Plenty of runners-up.
Stephen Saber
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jack45
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M31 I find to be very good viewing! Then M13,M82 and so on!
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David Knisely
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For me, it depends. In binoculars or my 100mm f/6 refractor, its the Pleiades, but in the telescope, the Double Cluster always is a real crowd pleaser in a variety of apertures. Clear skies to you.
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llanitedave
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Reged: 09/26/05
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Loc: Amargosa Valley, NV, USA
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It changes from night to night. Tonight, I really enjoyed letting M-13 drift across the field of my 10" at 225x. With the strings and trails of stars standing out over the background glow, it looked almost alive, like a luminous, pulsating jellyfish
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novbabies
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Reged: 06/05/05
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Loc: Northern Georgia!
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AAARRRRGGGGHHHH ! ! ! ! ! How can you pick just one? They're all so majestic in their own separate ways!
Although I'd agree with Bill re M17, since for me this was a watershed event. I'd just gotten my very first narrowband filter ever, a Lumicon UHC. My whole life, this nebula had been a cigar-shaped patch, leaving me wondering about its monicker. When I looked at it through the UHC, I saw for the first time its delicate curves and lovely swan shape - and now it's one of my favorites!
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Good Seeing!
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Acheron
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 08/07/05
Posts: 765
Loc: Croatia, Velika Gorica
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#1 M13
#2 M42
#3 Double Cluster
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typhus
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Reged: 11/06/04
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Loc: Tucson, AZ
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I'm a big fan of M27, The dumbbell. I also like M 81 & M 82.
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Shane
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Cosmosphil
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Reged: 02/04/05
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Loc: So. California
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I would have to move more in the direction of FirstSight.
But, even more so. If you have a 10 or 12" and a good dark sky any of the Abell galaxy clusters are on the top of my list. Dozens of galaxies in the same field. Each little fuzzy spot a star city of billions of suns and trillions of planets. The cluster so far away and the light so old that dinosaurs didn't even exist yet! The mind races........and races......................
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