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Bob D.
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Reged: 06/04/09
Posts: 25
Loc: PA
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Good Morning,
I am always amazed at what I can see through my 8 x 40 Binoculars. I use them to plan out star hops as I have a hard time visualizing star hops when looking at an atlas. I haven't even begin to look at all of the Messier object as I have had my current telescope for less than a year. The previous telescope was a 3" Edmund's scientific reflecting telescope that I owned back in the late fifties and early sixties.
The tough objects for the binoculars are the small globular cluster. It is difficult to decide if you really are looking at a globular or a star. M-33 is a tough object for me also, but one night in the eighties I had a spectacular view of this gem. OK it was November, in Northern Ontario, snow on the ground and the temperature hovering around 0 C.
I would definitely have M-33 on my list as I haven't seen it yet in the Phillie area.
Cheers and Clear Skies
Bob from Phillie
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arpruss
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Reged: 05/23/08
Posts: 858
Loc: Waco, TX
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In a way, the hardest for me was M24. That's because the catalog I was using gave M24 the size and location of NGC 6603, so instead of looking for M24, I was looking for 6603, but just couldn't pick it out from the dense sea of stars. Once I found out that the whole big star cloud was M24, I learned that I had been seeing it all along. :-)
M51 was very hard until I got out to darker skies. Then it was very easy. Apart from M24, once I found a yellow skies site, no Messier object I looked for was very hard with my 8", except that I am not sure I've actually seen M20 through the 8"--only the associated cluster (though I have seen M20 in green skies through binoculars, and in red skies through my 13" with OIII filter). Once I got my 13", all the Messiers became easy to very easy.
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Coulter Odyssey 13.1" split-tube
Coulter Odyssey 8"
Home-made 7.8" F/4 dobsonian travel scope
Home-made 68mm F/5.3 achro (typically used as finder on 13.1")
Skymaster 15x70
BPTs4 8x30
32mm Plossl, 30mm Rini, 27mm Kellner, 13mm Hyperion, 6mm TMB/BO Planetary, Owl 2X Barlow
Palm TX with AstroInfo and RescoViewer
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