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Randy Cordell
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Loc: Cedar Rapids IA
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Re: small binocs M44 star counts and galaxies
05/04/08 09:07 PM
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Hi Ed,
I got to spend a long time under a pretty decent sky last night. I had my 15x70's trained on M44 for a long time. Our club had their public night last night so there were a lot of people coming and going. I noticed something I have NEVER experienced before and wonder if this is a usual thing or is it atmospheric dependent? While viewing the cluster the very "center" small triangle asterism of three stars appeared to be deeper than the rest. Actually there were two or three sets of stars that appeared this way while looking at the center. However, any stars I looked at directly would appear to move back and become sharper and cause the same three dimensional feel. Have you ever seen anything like this? It was quite unusual. I have a new pair of glasses (a whole different subject!) but wonder if I just was not seeing what everyone else does prior to this? This was using my 15x70's.
As for counting how many stars I could see....I uh...ah-hem...have a printed copy of your chart with me every time I'm out...but in the excitement never seem to get to that count. 
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Randy Cordell
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