[night-vision]

Hi Ric,
It was awesome.

Originally Posted by §AB

nice report! How did you go as far as wind and seeing were concerned? Because here the wind ruined any chances and stars were twinkling like all hell so I didn't even bother because experience tells me nights like last night absolutely suck and are the nights when a small RFT would be handy.

Thanks §AB,
I set up in Kooweerup and the wind was fairly gusty until around 11:30-12:00 then settled into a still night, from setup till this time I was cursing quite a bit as it made it hard to focus and like you say the stars where twinkling like hell, all the deep space stuff was attempted after 1am.

NGC1316 is a large elliptical, so basically you won't see anything more than a hazy glow regardless of your telescope. My 10" shows it as a large oval glow. One to try for, which for some reason I overlooked, is barred spiral NGC 1365. The spiral arms should just resolve in an 8" according to some amatuers.

Thanks I add that to my list.

NGC104 is sensational, I find its best at 400+ magnifications. Also look for NGC362, quite nice in good seeing.

Looking at my notes again, I did have a crack at NGC 362 but didn't write anything down. oops, another one to go back too. Another one from my notes was NGC 3532 and all my notes say is cool