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Well done Dean, M104 is a beauty. As geoff mentioned M83 is much harder from the suburbs. From my back yard which is on the outer edge of the suburbs here in Townsville I can only just make M83 out with my 12" Dob. Depending on the quality of the seeing sometimes I even have to gently move the scope from side to side to see it at all.
To answer your other question, NGC5128 otherwise known as "Centaurus-A" is one of my favourites and quite easy to see. You said you have star charts, it will be shown on them for sure. Exciting stuff finding objects for the first time, good luck and keep having fun.
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