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Basics for Telescopes

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Small Telescope Visibility Guide

Seeing can be rated as follows: (consider a high power view - 30-40X/inch)

 I - Boiling image without any sign of diffraction pattern.

II - Important eddy streams in the central disc. Missing or partly missing diffraction rings.

 III - Central disc deformations. Broken diffraction rings.

 IV - Light undulations across diffraction rings.

V - Perfect motionless diffraction pattern.