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Old 02-09-2008, 11:29 PM
ausastronomer (John Bambury)
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Originally Posted by Rob_K View Post
Just a little obs report from the Border Stargaze!

Queued at the two 18" Obsessions as well. Jupiter was first – great colour and detail. The other Obsession had 3 small edge-on spiral galaxies in the field – great view, nice and bright, but I have no idea which ones they were.

But all in all a fantastic night!!!

Cheers -
Hi Rob,

Those 3 Galaxies in Grus are NGC 7582, NGC 7590 and NGC 7599.

They are reasonably bright and small and are "just" visible in your 4.5" telescope from nice dark skies and good conditions.

Cheers,
John B
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