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Originally Posted by higginsdj
Well you should be able to find and see the LMC and SMC - they're galaxies 
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And I can see the Milky Way, but not all of it in any one night!
Yes, getting to dark skies helps enormously. In your suburban glow, with eyes not well dark-adapted, there are only a half dozen (apart from the Milky Way, LMC & SMC
) that you can catch a hint of, or perhaps something more than a smudge - especially with older eyes like mine
. There are two approaches. Finally capture a hint of a galaxy in city light, then be blown away when you se them under good conditions. Or, forget about it until you see them in good conditions and know how to find them and what they look like, then come back to the 'burbs and be blown away by the fact that you can catch a hint of them under those terrible conditions!