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Old 15-05-2017, 09:19 AM
N1 (Mirko)
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Hi Jem, I totally agree with others that background knowledge about your targets adds to the experience tremedously.

Don't worry about the supposed limitations of your scope. Point it at wheatever you want and see for yourself. Read up on your targets. Use your 10" for comparison whenever it suits (these two are actually a great pair). That's how you gain experience, and that's how you make an informed decision if you ever do decide to upsize, not by avoiding an entire field of visual observing outright. Viewing DSOs can be done with no telescope at all using just the few mm of aperture of your pupils. Now imagine the improvement your 127mm will give you over that. For the same improvement again...well let's just say it's more than 10". Or 20. Or 50. I know this is a silly argument, but so is the suggestion that you can't look beyond the solar system unless your scope has [insert random number here] inches of aperture.
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