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Originally Posted by Satchmo
The sky in Canberra would be far better than Sydney Observatory. A 6" scope of any kind would show next to nothing but the Moon and Planets.
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Meeah...perhaps
marginally better, The Canberra Observatory was in a shopping/restaurant hub of the city though, so it was pretty crapola...
In any case, as I have said a few times now (
) it was my
direct experience in a public setting, under heavily light polluted skies, that the 7" Starfire gave better views of pretty much
everything, stars, PN's, nebula and even galaxies, compared to the 16"
to the public eye at least, heck, the skies were so washed out it wasn't worth the effort to have people climbing the ladder to the Newtonian focus of the 16" almost everyone was bitterly dissapointed....the scope did look bloody amazing though
and was a fantastic showpiece for the 7" Starfire and most visitors thought they
were looking through the 16" anyway...unless I told them
Mike