Melbourne served up a good night last night and here in the Yarra Valley it was great.
We decided to have a Nebulae and Galaxy night. We started around 7.30pm with the Ring then the Dumbell...Saturn...Helix...Trifid.. .Lagoon...Swan...Eagle...Tarantula.
Wow!! How can you beat that !
Adding 47 Tucanae which was simply stunning with the Pentax 10XW resolved right to the core.
We then switched to exploring new areas to find galaxies in Sculptor, Fornax and Eridanus .
We appreciate Ken's (Ballarat Dragons ) advise on a previous post recommending to spend more time at the EP with each galaxy to take in more detail. THANKS KEN
Our surprise was when we looked for NGC1399 in Eridanus we found 1365 and 1316 in the same FOV with the 27mm Pano. Then further concentration at the EP we found another four galaxies in the same FOV. Nothing on the chart we used to tell us what the other four were. We assume others have seen this group of galaxies before but this was our first time seeing multiple galaxies in this area.
All in all a super night packing up about 1.30am. Love it!! Love It!!
Barb & David