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Originally Posted by MattT
Hi Malcolm,
I'm going on memory from the last time I saw it, which was at a dark site a year and a half back. It was a really good night. I might have changed eyepieces to get a shorter FL, to get it to 'fill the eyepiece' but can't remember doing that highly probable as I do change eyepieces a lot. Naked eye it is a very faint smudge.
Matt
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That makes more sense, I was worried you may be giving the impression it is a huge object, while it is large for a galaxy, it is still fairly small and small scopes it appears even smaller as the halo fades gradually.
Well done seeing it naked eye. I once thought I had caught it on a really dark night 2 years ago at Snake Valley, never since. It is a really hard test!
Cheers
Malcolm