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CESDewar
GorillAstronomer
Reged: 01/16/05
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Loc: Morganton, GA, USA
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Re: Field of view
11/11/07 10:46 PM
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Hey, this gives me another thought for something other than a sequential Marathon...
What is the greatest number of Messier objects you can see in one FOV? Of course as you increase the FOV, you decrease the magnification, making it hard to see the fainter objects -- so pointing it at Virgo might not be the best strategry, although my guess is that'll still be the winning placement. If so, we'll make it apart from the Virgo galaxies!
I'm wishing now I did that while all the Southern eye candy was still up in the sky (it's getting rather low now), but it should be possible to see M16, 17, 18, 19, 25, 24, 23, 21, 20, 8 (maybe even 28?) in the same FOV! Of course there's a question on some Messiers like 16 which involve a cluster with nebulosity - the cluster may be obvious, but the nebulosity much less so in tiny Binos like the 5x32's...
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