My observations for- 19/03/10
Telescope-130mm reflector
M104-Star hopping to it wasn't that hard.i used the three stars that point straight at it(pretty good chance alignment).At 36x i could see it as a pretty small streak of light,i then popped in the 10mm which gave me 90x but slightly dimmed M104.The core of m104 looked almost stellar.i couldn't distinclty see the dust lane but noticed that the northern part of the galaxy was definatly brighter than the faint glow beneath the core.So i thought maybe the dust lane was blocking out the light.M104 has an interesting field of stars around it.
Happy observing
Orestis
