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[moonshinegnomie]

2. not really

different times of the year tend to have different types of object.
right know we are heading into what called galaxy season,when the best object tend to be galaxies. besides these there the whirlpool and pinwheel galaxies (which are my next targets,im finishing editing on the pinwheel and have my scope shooting the whirlpool tonight.

summer is the milky way and a lot of object in it like the lagoon and trifid nebulas. winter bring things like orion

distance isnt teh limiting factor, its brightness and size. distance object tend to be very small and my scope is only a focal length of 500mm with a crop sensor camera so its not really suiltable for planets for example or a lot of small nembula. i tend not to shoo tthings smaller than an angular diameter of 5-7 arc minutes. (the full moon for example is 30 arc minutes. the andromeda galaxy is about 180 arc minutes wide.