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Thanks Les and Rob!
Les, it seems that IC 418 doies respond quite well to H-beta, because using this filter, the nebula wasnt dimmed at all, infact the filter seemed to improve upon the non-filtered view. ANd thankyou for your own accounts, I enjoy reading these as it helps with my own obervations! You say that the central star of NGC 2022 is mag 15.8, I've seen mag 15.95 stars with my 12", however I doubt I'll catch the central star in NGC 2022, as my obs of such extremely faint stars have been done under exceptional winter transparency, while hunting galaxies in areas such as Pavo and Phoenix (i.e. almost directly overhead!!)
Cheers and clear skies!
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