Hey guys im still pretty new at this, and i've been doing a ton of reading over the last week and have got my head around alot of things, thanks to this forum for having such a wealth of information.
Anyway I need to ask about how good should i be able to see deep space objects. I have a Celestron C8 SCT and i've been having a great time looking at saturn and jupiter, even more so now that i just learnt how to collimate it. After i did that WOW what a big difference it made to seeing the detail on jupiter, any newbies reading this i highly recommend you learn how to collimate your scope its the best thing ive done so far.
So now i've turned my attention to looking at galaxies and nebula and all i see is pretty much just a faint fuzzy object. Nebulas are even more difficult to see, its hard to make out any definate gas cloud. I just need to know is this the visual limits of my scope? Other then travelling out to the bush i dont know how else i can improve it?
When i see astrophotos i realise with the long exposures it can capture much more detail then the eyes can detect, i just didnt realise it was so significant and if this is normal?
The only high power eyepiece i got is a cheap 10mm plossl that came with the scope which is probably the weakest link here. I do have a baader hyperion 13mm on order so should i expect a significant improvement with that eyepiece?
Also im in the outer suburbs of brisbane and i dont believe light pollution is that significant or maybe im wrong?
Cheers
Matt