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patter1
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Re: Does aperture rule in bino land?
12/08/05 03:43 PM
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Yes, that paragraph by Ed sums it up nicely...you don't often see this kind of depth in other astro forums or magazines. But at the risk of belaboring a point, I have an important question for Ed or anyone else, which hasn't yet been answered:
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"Under mag 4 skies you would probably wouldn't see any more of anything with a larger aperture at the same magnification, and you would probably lose sight of faint extended objects at your contrast threshold because the background sky would appear so much brighter the image would get washed out."
Have there been any instances, in any amount of light pollution, where someone actually saw a faint extended object in a scope or binoc that wasn't seen in a similar instrument of same magnification but larger aperture, at about the same time?
Edited by EdZ (12/08/05 04:36 PM)
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