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Old 08-02-2005, 05:08 PM
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Starkler (Geoff)
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What Paul said about the human eye is correct. It takes a lot more light to see colour than it does to just detect light.

I have never seen colour in any nebulous DSO except for planetary nebulae, which are usually blue/green, whereas others say they see colour in M42 in an 8 inch scope.
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