We had a good night that night so Centaurus A was clearly a patch in the finder. It really is a very bright galaxy. I took a widefield shot a while back with my camera piggybacked on the back of a scope with a cheap 50mm telephoto lense, hoping to get a bit of Omega Cent, and even an exposure of 60 secs was enough to pick up Cent A as well, even could see the dust lane if you zoomed a little. So seeing it in the finder is easy!
Didn't see the owl eyes in Omega C. Don't know if I have, please elucidate!
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