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Old 29-02-2016, 10:39 AM
glend (Glen)
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A good nebula filter is useful for all the usual bright nebulas that you can see visually. These filters bring out the cloud detail.
As far as galaxies are concerned, try to work on the brightest ones first, like M104, M83, etc but they are only rising to a decent altitude after 3am right now. Centarus A is fairly bright and can be found very close to the east of Omega Centauri. Just keep working at it, and use a good planetarium app to guide you. Galaxies will be faint objects so use your averted vision , ie don't look directly at it but use your good black and white side vision to spot it. Centarus A may show up better with a light pollution reduction filter.
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