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human
When looking into space with a basic telescope, most of what you'll see will be stars, right? So what is the magnification threshold you have to pass to where everything you see are entire, separate galaxies?
gpt
It's not so much about magnification, but how much light you can collect. Galaxies are incredibly faint. Most of the stars in our own galaxy are impossible to see with the light pollution we have today.

The Andromeda Galaxy is several times the angular size of the Moon in our sky, but it is incredibly faint. And this is the nearest galaxy to us!

If you could see the whole sky with the brightness of objects magnified (or if you just take a long exposure shot of the sky compensated for Earth's rotation), you wouldn't need a lot of magnification to make out different galaxies.