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Old 10-07-2012, 10:10 PM
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Paddy (Patrick)
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I have to say that subjectively M104 is brighter to my eye. I wonder how much of the effect is that the centre part of NGC 5128 is much brighter than the outer parts of the halo. It took me a while to work out when I first started observing it that the reason it looked so different in images was that a lot more of the disc is visible than it is even in a 16" scope.
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