Welcome to the Grand Tour, commencing with Pyxis. The concept of the Grand Tours was explained earlier today in the General Segment of ISS.
In essence, I am using this as a plan to view the 5 brightest stars of each each constellation and 5 other objects of interest. (However, not Messier objects). Let's begin...
I read that Alpha, Beta and Gamma Pyxidis are all of different colours. I will be interesting in examining this further.
Alpha Pyxidis- Blue White.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Pyxidis
Beta Pyxidis- Yellow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Pyxidis
Gamma Pyxidis- Orange.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_Pyxidis
Delta Pyxidis- The seventh star of the Chinese Celestial Dog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Pyxidis
Eplison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_Pyxidis (Member of Sirius Supercluster of stars)
NGC 2818/18A (Hartung's 383). This is a cluster with a Planetary Nebula within it, like M46, although somewhat fainter. Said to be visible in a 6inch telescope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_2818
https://observing.skyhound.com/archi.../NGC_2818.html
Beta 208 (Hartung's 350) A Double Star. All of the mentioned Hartung's objects are viewable on the following Website. It may take 30 seconds or more for the pages to load.
https://books.google.com.au/books?id...%20350&f=false
h4166 (Hartung's 373) A Double Star.
NGC 2613 (Galazy- Hartung's 346)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_2613
Finally there is the recurrent Nova T Pyxidis. It is normally visible with an 8inch scope. It last went nova in 2010 and seems to do so on a semi-regular basis of about every 2 decades That said, there was no observed eruption in the 1980s, but previous eruptions were observed in 1890, 1902,1920,1944 & 1966.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_Pyxidis
There are no Messier of Caldwell Objects in Pyxis.
I have yet to make my observations, but will follow this plan when the weather clears; although the weather people are saying that we may have a cyclone next week!
So if anybody observes any of these before me, feel free to share your observations.