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Message Subject NASA WARNING! Huge Asteroid 2005 YU55 to Pass Near Earth in November 8!
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sky gazer add 'normaly" what kind of telescope? no device lesser then 5000 $ can catch this?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1331546


Well when I say sky gazer I just mean someone either without a telescope or with a cheap store bought telescope. The scope needed to see this need not be expensive, but it needs to be a quality telescope with modest aperture. It would be easiest to do with an astrophotography setup capable of at least some deep space imaging. A large dobsonian could be used to spot it by eye as well, but you'd have to know exactly where to find it (one of the dob push-to or goto scopes Orion sells would work best).
 Quoting: Astronut


Would one of those 5 or 6" Celestrons you recommended to me a week ago be sufficient?
 Quoting: Comedian

It should suffice if you use it with the Meade DSI and focal reducer. By eye you should theoretically be able to spot it in the eyepiece, but it would be near the limit of what you can see with that telescope and might require averted vision.
 Quoting: Astronut


Rockin', thanks bud! If averted vision doesn't do it, I'm willing to try double vision...
 
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