[APBeta] FOV question(s)

[David Crum]

That's what I needed to know.  Thanks Paul!!!

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Paul Rodman <paul at ilanga.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 19, 2009, at 05:25 PM, David Crum wrote:
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>> Moving this from the Yahoo forum to here (per Paul's request).
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>> I am having some problems getting a lot of stars in my FOV.  I have
>> been playing around with it (as suggested earlier) and I have found
>> that the field size does indeed dictate how many stars get placed in
>> the FOV.  I am including a screenshot showing my settings.  In my
>> example, I am showing IC 1296, along with my 6.7mm eyepiece/16 inch
>> scope.
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>> I should be seeing more stars in my FOV at least down to 15-16th mag??
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>> Here is where I put my SS at-
>> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v700/davidthebear/0066.jpg
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> That's about right for the catalogues you have, since they don't go down to
> Mag 16.
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> If, for example, I take you field and display the Hubble GSC, I get:
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> which shows pretty much all stars down to Mag 16 (I believe). The USNO A2.0
> goes to dimmer stars:
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> However, a recently-reported bug is displaying ALL the USNO stars, even
> those dimmer than Mag 16.
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> Your answer is to pony up for a deeper catalogue...
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> Paul R.
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