Hello Chris !
Thanks a lot for these very interesting explanations !
Now I have all informations I need !
Kind regards from Switzerland
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- Mon Dec 07, 2009 8:42 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
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- Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:59 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
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Re: When the dark sky isnt...
Hello Chris ! Thank you for your explanations. I went on Wikipedia to understand more about magnification. If I correctly understand, the magnification depends of the lenght of the focal. so I can guess that the bigger the diameter of the primary mirror (for a newtonian telescope), the longer the fo...
- Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:09 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: When the dark sky isnt...
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When the dark sky isnt...
Hello ! Since many years I dream about a telescope and I wish to buy one as big as possible but I wonder if there is any table explaining which is the optimal size regarding the quality of the local sky. I think of a table linking for example a city sky to a e.g. 10cm telescope, a village sky to a 2...