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Hi Everyone ,
Thanks for the welcoming. Ric, I am definately guilty of having a lack of patience, especially with a new hobby. For example, I tried butterfly nebula, looked in between the two scorp stars, couldnt see it so I moved on. Next time I have a go I think I will take my dog for a walk on the dark streets first to adapt and then I will go straight outside, choose 1 target and spend a couple of hours on it. I like the butterfly because I was very confident that I was looking in the right spot and scorpius happens to be right outside my back door at the moment. Is this a good place to start or is it a hard one to see? I might leave the virgo cluster for camping somewhere really dark. The other thing I wanted to ask may sound like a silly question. Will I know when I see these nebula? Are they just going to be a tiny spec through a 6" that is indistinguishable from the tiny spec next to it (or the one next to that)? Obviously, my scope is not as good as hubble so I know it wont be like the pictures, but basically when I was looking for the blue planetary and butterfly, all I could see was some tiny specs that looked like the smallest of stars. I am just trying to gauge what to expect. Will the objects Im looking for "stand out" from the crowd?(with dark adaption and patience of course) It certainly appears that they will from what i have read in turn left at orion, the pictures of what they should look like in the FOV of a dob is pretty exciting. Anyway, hopefully I can see something that will keep me hooked. I will let you all know how I go.
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