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Old 09-08-2015, 04:15 PM
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lee, further to Slawomir's post, if this is with your 100mm scope, scope diffraction from the relatively small aperture will broaden the stars a little - eg, if you measure 2.8 arc sec, the underlying seeing is about 2.5 FWHM and the scope will have bumped it up to 2.8.

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