Finding vs. Seeing the Horsehead Nebula (was: Finding the Horsehead -- HOWTO)

Two entirely different things ;o)

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Martin
To reply remove "ilikestars" from my email address

As you all have probably surmised, my sleepy eyes led me to the "New Post"
button -- which was located less than an inch away from the "Reply Group"
button that I meant to click so as to include my comment in the "Finding the
Horsehead -- HOWTO" post of Thad Floryan.

I have now separated the two buttons by a few inches.

My apologies.

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Martin
To reply remove "ilikestars" from my email address

Two entirely different thing

Hi SS:

Well...yes and no. Many people fail with Horsey because they are not on the
EXACT spot. With something this challenging, you have to know JUST where it is,
period, to have a hope of seeing it.

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
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In article ,
says...
Well...yes and no. Many people fail with Horsey because they are not on the
EXACT spot. With something this challenging, you have to know JUST where it is,
period, to have a hope of seeing it.

Aw... heck - Who needs some fancy schmancy finder chart? Here ya go!

+---------------------------------------+
| ____ __ / |
| ( ) / |
| / NGC2023 ) | |
| ( ) / |
| | * SAO 132464 / |
| \_ ) | |
| \__/\__/ / |
| * SAO 132451 |
| / |
| North is up / |
| / \_ |
| --- \ |
| B33 _/ |
| /---/ |
| + GSC 4771:871 |
| / |
| GSC 4771:896 +| |
| | IC434 |
| / |
| / |
+---------------------------------------+

Man, ain't ASCII art great? Or is this ANSI art? Maybe since it was done
in UltraEdit on XP it might even be Unicode art... who knows. I
definitely recommend a monospaced font!

Watch out Greg, Emil, Chris, Patrick and every other developer! I can
see it now - The mag 12 ASCII Catalog of the Heavens Everywhere
(ACHE)...

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