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Originally Posted by barx1963
The 8" is an excellent instrument for viewing DSO's, there are hundreds within reach of your scope. Use the 26mm eyepiece first, and I would suggest you get a medium power eyepice say 15mm or their abouts, if you can offord it get a wide field one rather than a plossl.
Mars is not easy at the moment, very low, you have to wait for moments of good seeing to pick up much detail, but you should be able to see the polar cap.
Good objects in the Southern part of the sky are
Eta Carina Nebula
NGC 3532 which is close to Eta Car
47 Tucanae, NGC 104
NGC 362 close to 47 Tuc
Tarantula Nebula
The Jewell Box NGC4755
Omega Centauri (it rises late best after 1am)
All these will look great in an 8" and several (Omega Cent, Eta Car, NGC 3532) are naked eye and all are locatable in a finder
In the northern sky you can try for
M67 Open cluster in Cancer
M43 just near M42
Rigels companion star
Anyway thats just some starters of the top of my head, see how you go.
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Thanks to this, I was able to see most of the above and quite a few open clusters that showed up in stellarium.
I increased the light pollution to match what the sky from my site looks like.
any suggestions for galaxies that can be seen from an 8" reflector.
I came across a list in a thread here, but most were mag 10 and above.
any idea on what the limiting magnitude would be for an 8" reflector.
I bought a digital angle meter to measure alt.
just need to find an accurate compass as well.
almost finished with my fork mount. just waiting on the bearings and slr.