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Old 26-09-2009, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Starkler View Post
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.
Agree with you there the finder scope was very important in hunting galaxies before the Argo-Navis came along.
Cheers Kev.
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