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Originally Posted by Hoges
Yep, double stars with contrasting colors are some of my favorite targets through the scope - they can be visually very stunning. The Jewel Box cluster is a very pretty sight. Also, I find globular clusters just as stunning through an 8 - 10" scope (Omega Centaurus and Tuc 47) as their photographs can be. Same with planets on a good night.
And while most galaxies are pale smudges through my scopes, just being able to see stuff millions of light years away and knowing what you're looking at is very satisfying.
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Feeling pretty shattered.
At home on a clear night I could swear with naked eye I can see some coloured stars orange, yellow, blue and maybe green too? But perhaps this is a trick of light like a rainbow.
There are also appears to be jagged swathes of pure black(no visible even faint stars) between what seems to be the spiral arms of our galaxy?
The night sky explodes with millions more stars than I ever saw growing up in a city!
Lying back on a reclining chair looking up it appears a like a huge star studded massive dome!
While I didn't expect a telescope to show hubble size coloured nebulae, I kinda hoped mini versions, and differing star colours, Mars to be red or a dark orange with whitish polar caps, Jupiter with bands of some colour maybe a faint red spot, neptune a blue dot and maybe with luck Andromeda with a flash of yellow at its core?
I understand now how limited our eyes are and I do understand how mind boggling far away the stars and DSOs are.
But they are all going to be like the monochrome moon? Faint hardly dicernable "fuzzies"
Or will with a faily decent scope my brain "imagine"and create colours?
Or atmophereic spectral refractions make them turn coloured or not at all?
I remember as a kid the wonder and joy of seeing jupiter a large pea sized round white ball and saturn white too with ears, at least (even with a toy Tasco refractor) seeing them with my own eyes was fantastic!
But even back in the 70s in Sydneys western burbs, light polution was bad.
Not until my first trip to Macksville in 1979 did I see the true night sky-just Wow!
Now I have it most every clear and moonless nights.
Just thought a scope would rekindle that "wonder".
-with colour and a bit more detail...
