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Hi Erick
Thanks again for your help
I have seen many open clusters, but I found them hard to recognize, specially NGC3532, NGC 3372, NGC 3293. That part of the sky is so crowded.
NGC 4755 is easy to recognize because is very close to Crux, but I can see it very small in my 12x60 binoculars.
IC 2602 is easy to found and recognize. Is always my starting point for the Carina constellation.
I have also found 3114 ( not very clear) , 2516 ( that one looks OK since it is quite isolated)
And I am not very sure about IC2391, 2547, 2477 and 2451.
To the north is even worse, because I have all the light pollution from Melbourne.
I am following the maps from Skymaps.com. I found them very good and easy to understand.
But I am enjoying the nights a lot. Hopefully this year I will buy a 8'' Dobsonian.
I don't have any tripod. MAybe I will buy someone in the future. In the meantime I think I am doing it quite well with the chair with armrests and that can recline. I sometime found it difficult to get a good focus, or the focus seems to change a lot for different objects. Is it better to keep the eyes touching the eyecups or to keep them one or 2 cm away from the eyes.Because sometimes I get better vies with my eyes apart from the eyecups, but I get distracted by the ligth and images coming from the sides.
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