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Old 06-09-2014, 07:29 AM   #2091
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I guess your right about stars from our galaxy but what I meant by "hide" was the stars were not visable when they picked the spot to look at.
Ah ok, yeah it would depend on the size of the telescope and the brightness and distance of the star, I would guess that only a small portion of our galaxy has been surveyed.

The GSC-II has almost a billion stars out to magnitude 21, but there's hundreds of billions of stars in the galaxy, probably most of them would require this kind of effort (i.e. imaging a chunk of sky for days) to detect.
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