freeman@spar.UUCP (Jay Freeman) (07/26/85)
[] In article <700002@pbear.UUCP> peterb@pbear.UUCP writes: >I agree. Unless you have been far from the city, you won't believe how much >light pollution affects astral viewing!!! Just for the fun of it, I took my >Celeston 5" down to Nantucket Island(which is 26 miles from MA) [...] On a good night from a quite dark site in California (Fremont Peak State Park, with lower fog obscuring local lights), Stefan's Quintet was detectable (though not resolvable into individual galaxies) in a C-5, at (I think I remember but my observing logs are at home) 50X. -- Jay Reynolds Freeman (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)(canonical disclaimer)