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Originally Posted by glenc
Two interesting galaxies near the SMC are NGC 360 and NGC 646.
N360 is an nice edge on mag 13.4 Galaxy and mag 14.2 NGC 646 looks like a snake.
N360 is 5.2 degrees due north of the globular NGC 362.
Here is a SkyMapPro map to help find them at 5am and DSS images of the two galaxies from the NGCic website.
http://www.ngcic.org/dss/dss_ngc.asp |
Weather permitting, I will have a try for these two galaxies tonight,
After a week of observing and a long Saturday night Sunday morning, I had a couple of nights off, but will be back into it tonight
