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Very excited today. Another beautiful night last night. Clear skies, but plenty of light as usual. Anyhow, set out once again to have a shot at NGC5128. Again no joy after trying for a good 45 minutes.
Turned my attention to Virgo and M104. Took me about 1/2 hour and finally at about 12:30am found the bugger. Joy of joys!
Had a crack at finding some of the galaxies in the Virgo cluster. No luck until I stumbled on one very faint object. Was a little lost and I think it was actually M49 (NGC 4472) which is a bit of an outlier to the main galaxy cluster. Is this possible? Is this the brightest of the galaxies located around here? If anyone can help me appreciated!
Anyhow then managed to lose it, by which time I was exhausted and couldn't find either of the galaxies again. Spent the next 15 minutes just gazing naked eyes at the beautiful sky, picking off constellations, wondering why I hadn't done this years ago!
Regards, mike
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