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Hi Malcolm,
Thanks for taking the time to post your observations I certainly enjoyed them. Big fan of NGC 2903 myself. It is 20.5 million ly away but despite that, an 18" shows its largest star-cloud -- NGC 2905 a little north of the centre and the core region looks mottled/blotchy. I've spotted this galaxy from far outer suburbia with 10x50s. I covered it in the DSD, March 2007 AS&T.
Glad to hear you liked NGC 3603 which is appreciated better by the mind's eye than the eye -- once you appreciate its gargantuan nature.
Also quite like NGC 5617 -- a nice but often overlooked O.C. Almost exactly between it and Alpha Centauri is the very interesting PNe He 2-111 that is well worth a look too. Not too hard in 31cm from the suburbs
Best
Les D
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