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Old 29-09-2017, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Stevec35 View Post
Given your conditions Andrew I think that's pretty darn good! Dare I say though that I think it's M82 in the north that's known as the cigar galaxy. Of course when I observed M82 many years ago I remember remarking that it looked very like NGC 55.

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Steve
You're quite right! I've been calling it the cigar for years, but when I checked Hartungs, there's certainly no record of it having that common name. At least we can agree it's NGC 55

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Originally Posted by rustigsmed View Post
ouch! streetlights into the scope! you're game! but still good - nice one.

russ
You know it's bad when you have to set the scope up upside down so that the coma corrector doesn't have light falling directly on it :-(
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