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Protheus
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Re: First light... ever!
08/16/08 04:06 PM
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Andromeda can be hard in a decent amount of light pollution. Where I am, I can see it with 15x70s when it's well placed. If I travel outside of town, I see it in 15x70s when it's poorly placed, and as it rises, I can begin to find it with 10x50s.
What you will see of the Andromeda Galaxy, if anything, is probably the core. At least this will be all that you see at first. Look for a somewhat oblong, dim smudge. If you can find that, stare at it for a while, and you might get more detail from it.
Chris
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"To tread the sharp edge of a sword;
to run on smooth-frozen ice,
one needs no footsteps to follow..."
"Well, people sometimes ask me 'how did you get involved in astronomy?' I said 'I got born, what's your problem?'" -- John Dobson
"In discussing the large-scale structure of the cosmos, astronomers sometimes say that space is curved, or that the universe is finite but unbounded. Whatever are they talking about?" -- Carl Sagan
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