On Wednesday, 14 November 2018 23:28:53 UTC-5, palsing wrote:
On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 3:18:19 PM UTC-8, StarDust wrote:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46196279

What size telescope (aperture) is needed to see Barnard's star?

Even though that article states that Barnard's star is *extremely dim*, at approximately magnitude 9.5, Barnard's star can theoretically be glimpsed in 10 X 50 binoculars, and even a small telescope will easily be good enough to track it down... but the trick here is that Barnard's star is just another dim star amongst dozens of others in the field, so you need a very detailed star chart to know exactly which one it is!

This is one of the best overall pages for this star...

http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/barnard.html

Pity most of these planets are projected to look like Afghanistan.