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30 September 2005 Sky & Telescopemount pinos, california, circa half decadeinto a newfound hobby, I found myself part of the monthlynew-Moon gathering upon the 8,300-foot-high mecca ofLos Angeles area astronomy. Entranced with the magic ofstar-hopping, I had demoted the naked-eye sky to a scatter-ing of celestial steppingstones mere highway signs tellingme where to point my Coulter 8-inch (20-centimeter) Dob-sonian and begin doing real astronomy. It wasn t just that I had fallen under the spell of findingdistant galaxies and ghostly nebulae with my recently ac-quired reflector. The stars had never really looked thatsharp to my naked (that is, telescope-free) eyes anyway,even when my glasses were on.
among the stars; and they have brought a number of deep-sky objects into naked-eye view for the first time. Now I routinely resolve Perseus’s Double Cluster into
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