Way to go Les...............Way to go feeding my withdrawal symptoms
Those look like some real challenging galaxies in this edition of your fine reports! Notihng like some on the edge fuzzies
btw, I picked up April's S&T and I noticed in your Deepsky article that you mentioned that you saw those potrusions in NGC 3918. I've managed to glimpse them at 667x with the 12" dob.
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29/12/09, 12" F/4.4 dob
NGC 3918
PNe, Centaurus, Size = 19", Mag V = 8.5
A favourite of mine! Easily seen as a green disk at 41x. At 381x, the planetary appeared very slightly elongated N-S. At 667x, the N-S elongation of this PNe was clearer, and I could see very faint bulges stretching out from the PNe's E and W sides, with the western one larger and more obvious. This gave the PNe an appearance that could be best described as two cereal bowls stuck together rim-to-rim. The overall surface brightness of the PNe also appeared to be slightly uneven, and the northern edge appeared somewhat brighter than the rest of the object.