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Old 01-10-2009, 06:34 PM
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Hi Erick, John & All,



Never seen it. Haven't tried .. yet -- but I'd say John's comment above is right on the money. 18" would be the absolute minimum in perfect conditions (seeing and transparency) to see the A component alone. You have to remember that the individual components of the lens are inside the halo of the galaxy -- so its harder than seeing a mag 17.4 star alone in native sky. Your looking for a 17th mag star against the background of the halo of a galaxy (faint though it be).

Very, very, very difficult. Need more telescope I think ...

Having said all that, I've got little doubt that someone on "another forum elsewhere" will announce to the world that they have observed the four components in an 8" 'scope ...

Best,

Les D
And to add to that, the seperation between the 2 widest seperated components is 2".
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