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To: TaraP

This is VERY dim, and dimmer than the dimmest star you can see in the darkest sky by as much as the difference between that dimmest start and a very bright star.

You need a Large telescope and exceptional star charts to see this.


3 posted on 11/07/2010 5:58:12 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed ("Nobody tell Barack Obama what number comes after a trillion" --S.P.)
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To: Beelzebubba

I wish we’d get one bright enough to see during the day in my lifetime.


6 posted on 11/07/2010 5:59:41 PM PST by Tolsti2
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To: Beelzebubba
You need a Large telescope and exceptional star charts to see this.

The Crab supernova this ain't, visually. Don't think I'll even attempt it with our 10" Meade. Sure, it would pick it up, but I want to see what I'm looking at, not just look at what I'm seeing.

Besides, I expect a supernova to sunburn me at midnight, to be worthwhile. *<];-')

28 posted on 11/07/2010 7:19:06 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: A Satanically Transmitted Disease spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus)
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