Thread: Alpha centauri - how to make you want to throw away your new scope...
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Old 19-06-2011, 04:07 PM
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twenty years ago you could almost resolve Alpha Cent. with a pair of binoculars (you could easily if they were 15x or more).

It is a lot tighter now.

Alternatively - go back to a refractor!
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