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Old 05-09-2011, 10:37 AM
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Thanks for the comments all.

If you were wondering how real imaging at a focal length of 300mm is, here are a couple of animated gifs with the exact same area from the ESO Deep Sky Survey.

Here
http://archive.eso.org/dss/dss

This is a 40' X 40' crop animated gif 2MB

http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.co...9/restest2.gif

To show the really fine detail or lack thereof 8.5' X 8.5' crop animated gif 2MB.

http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.co...09/restest.gif


My guess is that the resolution is better than about 20" for really dim stars. This is a bit less than four sensor pixels.

Bert
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