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Hi Dennis, I think your 80mm should be able to resolve it. It sounds as though you need darker skies, and pump up the power. Your 6 inch is a no brainer, it should readily resolve, again best with dark skies and enough magnification. My 4 inch Genesis easily resolves both Omega and 47Tuc - from dark skies, the pictures are glorious, I look at them for hours and hours. They are balls of fine grade sand, its mind boggling that each 'particle' is a sun, hoarded together…
Tell us how 80mm, vs 6 inch, vs 8 inch goes!
PS: I used to have an 8 inch Meade SCT, and it could do things my refractors can't. On the other hand, its amazing how the refractors can strut their stuff in other ways, esp from dark sites. Also, I owned the 8 inch SCT over 30 years ago, and sky conditions were SO different back then. I can totally recall how dark the Melbourne South East suburb skies were compared to the white wash of nowadays. It's rather heart breaking for us observers - that's another story, eh?
Fox
Last edited by Fox; 04-05-2014 at 01:11 PM.
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