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Originally Posted by blink138
hello members
i am only on my third night out with my new setup and for several reasons i have not attached all of the goto on my g11, so i am just pushing the scope manually at present
now i am pretty sure i have located eta carinae visually just above our cross
but i spotted some other cloud a little further south west(?) seemed to be directly under sirius
i had a meade sw 24.5mm lens and an lp filter and in the same field there seemed to be a smaller fuzzie at 3 and another at 6
looking at the A S&T chart the only nebula that seemed to be in the correct position was in the LMC! however there was no hint at all of another galaxy or other stars around it in inner city perth
what do you think it was and realistically what can i expect to see visually any chance at the brighter galaxies?
pat
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Hi Pat
That sounds like a rather sophisticated set up and should be great. I assume you are looking through a C11 with a 24.5mm eyepiece. In which case the FOV would be only about half a degree. In which case you would only see the core of Eta Carina and the only a small portion of the LMC. I doubt whether the objects you see have been correctly identified. If you have a planetarium program like Stellarium you will able to frame a 30 arc second view of these objects to see what you are actually looking at.
Once you get the rest of the drive mechanism attatched and do a polar alinment that setup will open up the world of the stars and you will be really hooked. What sort of a GOTO are you using. Have you got the gemini. or the standard drive.
Barry