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Subject: [M]: Re: Meade 16" mirror
From: Dave Pisak
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Sun Mar 01 06:17:50 1998


>
>Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 15:15:46 -0400
>From: preston@vms.cis.pitt.edu (Robert Preston)
>Subject: Re: [M]: Re: OT Help! -- Meade 16" Mirror
>
>Since one magnitude is 2.5-fold brightness (or scope area) difference, meaning
>I'd need a 2.5*16= 40inch scope to see one magnitude fainter than my 16 inch
>scope,

Rob,

Don't mean to pick nits here but, you would only(?) need a 25" scope to see one
magnitude deeper than a 16".

Dave



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