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Originally Posted by Steffen
Emma, I'm telling you, your scope is right smack bang in the middle of the zone of seeing nothing.
As popular opinion in the prevailing visual astronomy camps goes, your scope is either: - Too small: Nothing short of 14" of aperture is even worthy of putting an eyepiece into, because aperture rules;
- Too large: Nothing seen in a scope larger than 70mm is worth looking at, because it looks just plain ugly. Especially if none of the optical elements are made from unobtanium-tetrafluoride.
All those six-inch weenies are just having you on.
Just saying... 
Cheers
Steffen. |
Ha! My first scope was a 150/1000 and your not wrong. When I turned up to my first observing night I felt quite inadequate. Hence why I roll with a 300/1500 these days.
Then again it served its purpose to provide just enough of an interesting view to make me want to look deeper and get hooked on this hobby. That was like 5 years ago now.