I'd like to throw this out for those of y'all who spend a fair amount of time observing with telescopes 6" or smaller. Last night, I spent maybe an hour, hour and a half in Ophiuchus, divided about equally between Globulars M10 and M12. Observing both with a 5" refractor, at times it seemed that there was a thin spray of stars that could be seen across the face of each, particularly at 206X. Also, at both 103X and 206X, it seemed that I could see a spray of stars around them. The background material on these clusters indicate that they are a bit loose for globulars. So I wasn't too surprised to see some individual stars in and near them. But I thought I'd ask: Has anyone gotten this type of partial resolution (or better) with a telescope of similar size?
Thanks very much.
Thanks very much.
Mark Costello
Matthews, NC, USA
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