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Old 01-06-2008, 02:00 AM
spikeface (Peter)
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Location: Adelaide, South Australia
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Unhappy help with finding galaxies

hi all!

just a quick question... i recently got a 12" lightbridge, and the seeing has been fantastic... star clusters, planets, even some cool nebulae... but i cannot for the life of me find ANY galaxies... i know WHERE they are... if i can find CLUSTERS with the red dot finder and night sky atlas, then surely i should be finding SOME galaxies... so what's the deal? are they notoriously difficult to see? what mm eye piece should i be using? filters? surely my 12" is big enough to see them... somebody help! i really really want to see some galaxies!
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