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Originally Posted by Ted Manuel
Omega Centauri is just so dim when viewed in my backyard.
Find it hard to get excited over it when I view it on my 8" dob.
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If you are in the Melbourne metropolitan area, you
aren't going to see deep sky objects well. Time to get that 'scope out of Melbourne, a few hours drive away.
That said, human responses to "visual views" of the sky vary a lot.
I recall showing Omega Centauri to two people, one after the other:
First Person's Response : "It just looks like a can of worms. I'm sorry, I just can't relate to stars."
Second Person's Response : "If my father could have seen this, he wouldn't have been able to sleep for three nights......"
The objects we view in the telescope are Very very very very Far Away, and they are usually faint. So, a lot more interest can be added to our observations by
learning the details of what it is that we are actually looking at in the telescope.
Do you know how far away Omega Centauri is? How many stars it contains? How it formed, and how many years ago?
cheers, Robert