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Originally Posted by astroron
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You're just lucky I deleted a fair wack off that post then arent ya!
Btw I nabbed M104 and NGC 5102 in my 4" dob- juuuuuust!
Intsy Wintsy spots of fuzz they were. But awesome that the little scope was capable of it nevertheless
. I really need to remind myself that I have a bigger telescope.
4" is getting way too much use lately.
But I do enjoy it as it's a challenge.
It's an easy catch Shell, it sounds like that's it. There is no other bright-ish galaxy right next to iota Centaurus, so I'm fairly certain that's it. Sometimes only the core is visible but on occasions of better seeing conditions I've seen the faint extensions quite easily (not the outline tho as Robert was talking about). It looks like a brick, rectangle in appearance. I hadn't noticed that shape until an fb buddy told me to look for it and there it was!
Did you use the XW10? That's what I use to observe it with. It's within the same f.o.v. as iota. Perhaps pop iota out the way to get a bit more detail on it.
Robert,
As usual your posts are very educational, thank you!
