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Fiske
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 03/14/04
Posts: 2057
Loc: Missouri / United States
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I observed this with my XT-8 last night. It is an extremely challenging object for that aperture from my backyard (4.5 NELM), even on a good night. I viewed it with 17mmT4 (82.5x) and 13T6 (108x) Nagler eyepieces. It was slightly easier to see in the 13, but still at the limit of averted vision. I couldn't hold it steadily and could only see it 30-40% of the time. I couldn't see it with higher magnification at all.
With this aperture and sky condition, you have to know precisely where to look even if you have it in the eyepiece FOV. I pinned it down by scanning back and forth between field stars I picked out from the Uranometria.
It was MUCH easier, I have to say, in the 22-inch...
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Fiske Miles
Nikon 8x42 LX / 12x50 SE Binos
Mini Borg 60ED, TV-101, AT80Ach, XT-8, C11/CI-700, 22-Inch Dob
Way too many Nagler eyepieces
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JakeT93
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Reged: 06/28/08
Posts: 177
Loc: Williamstown, NJ
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I found it tonight, wasn't too hard, but it wasn't too interesting. It was very dim in a 10" at 45x, and at 170x, it still didn't resolve. 185,000 L.Y.??? 
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-Jake the Snake
My equipment:
Orion DSE 10" Light Bucket!
10x50 Finder and ebay bracket
40mm GSO Plossl
32mm Celestron Plossl
2x Antares Barlow
25mm and 6.7mm Meade 3000 Plossls
Orion Explorer II 10mm and 17mm Kellners
Orion SkyGlow Ultrablock
Antares ND25
70 M's Obsreved
All Planets seen
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RRaubach
AstroCowboy
Reged: 01/26/05
Posts: 2173
Loc: Douglas (Converse County),WY
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I recall seeing n6426 only once, about 3 years ago. I was using my TMB 175 f/8 at the time. It was AV only that night, but distinct. I swept it up several times, along with IC1276 (aka Palomar 7). Just a faint glow, but definitely non-stellar. I have tried several times since to find this globular, but it requires exceptionally dark and transparent skies.
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Rodger
Meade SN-10 (UHTC) on Tak EM-200 mount/Antares rotating rings. Moonlite focuser.
Parallax 14.5" Newtonian on HD 200 mount (arriving soon!) w/ conical Royce mirror.
TMB 203 f/7 APO refractor on Tak NJP-160 mount.
Discovery 12.5" PDHQ
Schneider 18x80 "Flakfernrohr" binoculars/tripod mounted. Canon 15x50 IS binoculars
Unihedron Sky Quality Meter
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