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Old 03-05-2011, 05:28 PM
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barx1963 (Malcolm)
Bright the hawk's flight

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Thanks Sab and Paddy
Paddy the skies here have been rubbish lately, so the galaxies have been hard to find. However last night it made up for it will beautiful clear and steady conditions. Knokced over several Virgo cluster galaxies including much of Markarians Chain near M84/M86 will nearly getting down to mag 12.5! And thats looking towards some streetlights. Looking to the south it was even better, M4 was resolveable, Cent A was clear and the halo extended outside the dust lanes, everything was just stunning. Hope to have a full report in the next few days.

Malcolm
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