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Old 09-10-2018, 09:44 PM
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Original 1960 RCW Catalog/atlas!

Hi all,
I recently was up in Canberra and mount Stromlo and picked up a original 1960 published RCW atlas with stunningly deep for 50s era halpha photos taken with an 8 inch f1 astrograph! It also makes me think, howcome we have become less adventurous with scopes? Now everything is an f5 8 inch newt or 80mm frac or 8 inch screen on an eq6 etc. What happened? Nitpicking over star shapes or something?

Anyways, the atlas is amazing with 5 full page a3 mosaics with 18 panels spanning half the southern Milky way!!!
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