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the southern cross is in the milky way .. and so is Scorpius which is rising in the east and it's tail points to our galaxy's centre between Sagittarius .. and it is just a mess of stars and clusters.
with messier objects.. he catalogued feint objects so he didn't record them as comets .. but they are beautiful objects. he was a comet hunter .. which he is more famous for his list of non cometary objects then the comets he found ..
bob suggests a good idea with stellarium.. or a phone app or star charts ...etc.
matt
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