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Originally Posted by BilliGoatsGruff
How do you find the Tarantula nebula? I get lost even before I look to the skies!
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Under good skies, you should be able to find the Large Magellanic Cloud with the naked eye. Then use your finderscope to scan around the outside edge of it, and you should be able to make out a fuzzy. Then you just need to use the scope to find it.
It's really faint, conditions and dark adaptation will need to be quite good, but stick at it.
Oh, and make sure you look at some Hubble quality pics, so you know what sort of shape you are looking for.
Good luck!
EDIT: I found a good link to a sketch, that resembles what you might see
http://www.docdb.net/img/dso/ngc/2/n...treicher_2.jpg