Crikey Orestis!
What a fantastic report.
We all new that 12" dob in your hands would be a weapon.
Tell me something..
When you leave school, do you plan on studying an area in astronomy?
I'm seeing the next Stephen O'Meara in the making here..
After reading your incredible report on M64, I went and looked up some information on it. Turns out that dark banana shaped lane is apparenly viewable in telescopes as small as 4" and with a 6" the dark lane is completely resolvable. Ooooh, just can't wait to have a peek at this with my 10".
Also I read, William Herschel was the first to discover the dark lane in 1785 and compared it to a "Black Eye". There have been no supernovas detected in this galaxy which by the way was also discovered early as a radio source.
