Telescope Reviews: Re: Observing in the Shade

NGC 7006 is faint, and very far, far away, it's brightest members chime in at a dismal 17th magnitude, the problem with this cluster is that it is really tight, and the cluster is highly condensed, I tried 600* with my 12", and saw a very ghostly core with only a few stars resolved across the face, NGC 6229 is another difficult cluster, but still 300* magnification, I can see a great number of 15th magnitude, and fainter stars with averted vision, NCG 7006 is 185,000 Lys away way in the outer halo of our galaxy, so it's a small wonder why it's so difficult to resolve into stars, even a 36" shows NGC 7006 as a ghostly objest with extremley faint stars resolved around the core and edges...clear skies

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Starfinder 16 EQ, and dob
DS-10
Orion XT 12i
Z12
All the Lanthanum superwides!
Orion ultrablock filter
9mm Nagler type 6
15mm, 25mm, 35mm Ultrascopics
Orion Shorty Plus barlow
Orion Lazer Colimator
30" dob planned out in far future!

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