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Jeff Lee
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Reged: 09/17/06
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Hi All:
Last week I took my old C5 (Orange Celestron Pacific) out for a look see (it was upset that it did not get to go the Oregon star party with me). As I was looking for targets, I selected 7006 (visual 10.6, sfb 12.58) and I nailed it. For a 5" inch scope about 6 miles from downtown Portland, Or., I think that was pretty good. Just a fuzzy ball, but no averted vision needed.
Amazing what you can see sometimes when you just look.
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Jeff Lee
C90,C5,C8, 10 x 50's
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Hrundi
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Reged: 02/06/08
Posts: 1240
Loc: Estonia
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NGC 7006 is a dim unresolved clump even at decently dark skies with my 12". I think its spectacular distance of 135.4kly means you got about as good a view of this object as is possible with the equipment you got.
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Edited by Hrundi (09/06/09 10:28 PM)
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azure1961p
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Reged: 01/17/09
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Thats pretty impressive. Luv the c-pacific bythe way and the aperture. I n my 8 newt it was totally unimpressive and flat.
You made a good catch in challenging conditions.
Pete
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Achernar
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Reged: 02/25/06
Posts: 5027
Loc: Mobile, Alabama, USA
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That is quite an accomplishment with a 5-inch from a light polluted area. As for resolving it, it takes a 20-inch class telescope because the brightest stars are 16th or 17th magnitude, it's farther away than most globular clusters and probably obscured significantly by interstellar dust as well. NGC-6934 is the other Delphinus globular and it should be in range of a 5-inch as well.
It's a ninth magnitude object about six-arc minutes across.
Taras
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15-inch F/4.5 Dob under construction
10-inch F/4.5 Discovery Dob
6-inch F/8 Homebuilt Dob
4 1/4-inch F/4 Homebuilt reflector
A whole bunch of eyepieces, filters and other accessories....
Two curious cats
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Donsell
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Reged: 03/03/06
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When you read what you're getting with 7006 it's amazing to me you can get it at all. It's further away than the galaxy is wide. It has a brighter absolute magnitude than M13. It maybe an inter-galactic wonderer. It's a very cool object.
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Meade 12" Lightbridge
Prairie Astronomy Club:
http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org/
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http://www.hydeobservatory.info/
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