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Originally Posted by DavidU
Sensational report mate ! with a 4" f8 !!!!!!!!! crikey.
You would do some serious damage with a 12-16".
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LOL, I'm not sure about that David, think I'd be too lazy to take it out!
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Originally Posted by DavidU
The sky's up your way are excellent.
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Yeah, the skies are pretty good (except for the seeing). With a small aperture you need it! But I'm still in 'suburbia', albeit a small one, and skies from S to NW are a little polluted. Last night, for example, I swung the scope to the Grus Quartet and could see nothing other than one very faint glow which I couldn't identify. It was supposed to be our club night at Porepunkah airstrip last night, but my car let me down & I couldn't go. The airstrip has amazing skies, much better than home.
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Originally Posted by Paddy
I usually find this field by using three 4th mag stars in Eridanus that from a nice equilateral triangle with sides of about one degree.
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Yeah Patrick, the small naked-eye triangle makes this galaxy cluster very easy to find.
Cheers -