[AZ-Observing] Re: Memorial Weekend Observing
- From: Andrew Cooper <acooper@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 16:01:58 -0700
I can only imagine, 47 Tucane is an entry on my must see list someday!
Andrew
Brian Skiff wrote:
>>> NGC5139 (Omega Centauri) Enormous swarm of stars, fills the 25' field of
>>> the 12mm Nagler, very bright, very large, fully resolved to the blazing
>>> core, hard to believe such and object exists as it seems so unreal,
>>> conditions decent to the horizon tonight allowing appreciation of this
>>> southern object.
>>>
>>>
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> As Steve Coe has rightly said, the view you get from here with
>an 18-inch (say) is about what you get from the south in a 6-inch---
>except change "25' field" to "60' field".
> The only problem is 47 Tuc, which some of us feel is even better
>than omega Cen. Imagine a globular as large as omega Cen, but
>structured like M5 and the stars as bright or slightly brighter
>than those in omega Cen.
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>\Brian
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