Re: What's your thinking on this?

"W. H. Greer" <sendnomail@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Davoud asked:

Can the M45
nebulosity be seen through a telescope? (I really don't know.)

Absolutely, positively, without the slightest doubt -- YES!! But
sadly, it appears that few of today's observers have sufficiently dark
skies.

Second that. On very dark 6.5+ skies it's quite visible as a very faint patch
around Merope and Alcyone with my 20x100.

The first time I saw it, I thought the bino eyepieces were dirty from my eye
accidentally coming to contact with them and leaving a residue, which gave the
cluster a peculiar foggy appearance.

Turns out that was the nebulosity.

--
Bill
Celestial Journeys
http://cejour.blogspot.com
--
Ioannis --- http://ioannis.virtualcomposer2000.com/

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