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What is a nebulosity?

What is a nebulosity? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (astronomy) The characteristic of being nebulous; cloudiness (measured in octas).
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If you want to see the nebulosity surrounding the stars in the cluster, though, you'll need at least a 12-inch telescope.
By going back as far as possible, we thus arrive at a nebulosity so diffused that its existence could hardly be suspected.
Prof. Barnard adds that the nebulosity is easily visible in a 12-inch telescope.
The nebulosity of the ten-foot can be resolved into stars by the twenty-foot, and so on.
Were the nebulae really all star systems at vast distances from Earth, or were there also regions of true nebulosity, clouds of luminous fluid?
At the top, the sight is one of most beautiful in the world provided that the nebulosity is nil.

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