[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

Had the beast out for a couple of hours. Seeing wasn't bad, moon a bother so restricted objects I could try for. Had a crack at NGC253, always popular and I wanted to make sure I could find it easily when I get to Snake Valley next month. Did the track from Deneb Kaitos moving roughly south via a triangle then an extended parallelogram of stars via the finder and I could have sworn I was seeing 253 in the finder!. Looked great in the ep at all powers. Had another look in the finder and sure enough there it was. Got out the 10x50 binos and it was even clearer.
Very pleasing result.
Apart from that the only new target I nailed was NGC288. Faint old glob very dispersed, not far from 253. Cruised around a few old favourites and finally got a look at NGC2070 (Tarantula) in the 13mm Nagler and a Neb filter. Looked brilliant!

Malcolm