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Steven Aggas
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Re: Eyepiece v. Eyepiece/Barlow and PN cs's
07/10/08 12:32 PM
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The one my buddy saw, and I happen to be there and see using his scope and eyepieces/barlow, was NGC 6543, the Cat's Eye. As for the other buddy who made a similar comment just last week, I'm unsure what object he viewed.
I saw what he said to be happening, but I don't know what optics these guys were using and quite possible they could have been using a poor high power ep and a good low power ep/good barlow, idk.
There might not be anything real happening here, but since two people found it to apparently improve the cs viewing (although possibly not real) I thought I'd toss it out there for people to comment. I don't have a barlow to investigate for myself if eyepiece quality is the root cause, or what else might be happening.
It may have just been an overall improvement in viewing but was attributed to cs's because that was the object viewed at the time it was noticed, I'll ask what high power ep's these guys use.
Steven
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IV a 36"f4.5 Newt-Dob - "If it's up there, it's in here."
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