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Old 17-04-2013, 12:15 PM
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Sorry but that is silly. You are saying that the limiting magnitude is the same for 2 scopes of equal focal length but different aperture as you just take a longer exposure for the smaller scope. Hence the limiting magnitude is infinite for any scope as long as you can take an infinitely long exposure.
You have to be realistic and use a standard length exposure to compare scopes.
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