Wow,what a wonderful greeting.
Thanks Adam, lots of good reading in that link, I'm getting through it slowly. I'm now about to read " how to find deep sky objects quickly".
Quickly for me would be within 2 sessions (9pm-12am x3hrs x 2x nights= 6hrs)
Some of those objects are %$#@! to find
. M83 has been my latest nightmare. And I just found out from an image of the star field around it which I googled, I was so close, it wasn't funny.
Being up at Zenith doesn't help either
. As for Centaurus A, I don't know why, but I always seem to have trouble re-finding it, despite me having the star hop for it. Why can't all galaxies have a row arrows pointing to it, like the very polite M104 that announces "here I am"
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