Hi Rob,
Good report mate though I think you will find Ruprect 106 is likely to be a bit beyond your 'scope -- I find it is an absolute threshold object in a 20cm f/6. It is afterall mag +10.6. Hector perhaps can cast more light on whether it might show in a 4.5". But, then again, 25 years ago conventional wisdom said the Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) was an utterly impossible visual target. Now it seems half the world has seen it -- so keep trying, you never know.
Cloudy here tonight. Hoping for clear tomorrow night for the ol' Earth Hour open-night at Sydney Oservatory. Then I'm off to Mudgee for a week (well, from Wednesday) of (hopefully) sleepless nights.
Rob wrote:
"There were numerous other dim galaxies in the vicinity, but I can’t be sure of their names. My eyepiece was fogging up (combination of breathing & dew ..."
I must admit that I sometimes get pretty "breathy" looking at dim galaxies too !
Best,
Les D