Thread: what am i looking at?
View Single Post
  #2  
Old 09-02-2011, 06:42 PM
Robh's Avatar
Robh (Rob)
Registered User

Robh is offline 		 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Blue Mountains, Australia
Posts: 1,338
Hi Pat,

Looks like you're enjoying some viewing with your scope.
I gather you mean Canopus rather than Sirius, which perhaps means you were looking at the LMC (a satellite galaxy) and maybe the Tarantula Nebula and and/or some other feature in this galaxy. if you went further south-west, you may have been looking at the SMC and the globular cluster 47 Tuc.

Regards, Rob
Last edited by Robh; 09-02-2011 at 07:03 PM.
Reply With Quote