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Originally Posted by raymo
Great job Cam. It's funny how stunning 47 is visually, but how
difficult it is to make it look much photographically.
raymo
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There isn't an instrument that I've seen 47 Tuc with that didn't give me a view I loved, from 7x50 binoculars to the 9 3/4 inch refractor at Carter Observatory, to Dave Moorhouse's 16" 'retina-wrecker' binoculars. But you're right, photographically, even close-ups (and mine isn't even that) just don't do it justice.
I my own feeling is that photographs "smear out" the brightness of stars so the crispness of each star is lost. For nebulae it doesn't matter much, but for clusters and globs in-particular (since the stars are packed together so closely) it's a real loss.