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Old 26-09-2009, 01:56 PM
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Starkler (Geoff)
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Originally Posted by Rodstar View Post
The best thing you can do to improve your chances of seeing some detail in a galaxy is to go away from the city lights to a dark country location.
This is the single most important factor in seeing low surface brightness objects like galaxies. At a dark site I can see galaxies in my 50mm finder scope that are hard to see in my 15"er from the suburbs.
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