Many thanks Peter and Rob for you kind help. I go to Canoelands for a lot of my observing as a friend of mine has a dark sky property out there. Come to think of it I cant understand why I didnt go back to NGC 253 later in the night as the moon set about 12.40 am. Kicking myself as I write this. Got excited trying some imaging with the Nextimage camera. Saw the sun come up yet again. I checked out NGC 253s position for the IIS astro camp and it will certainly be in a good position so will mark that as a definate goal for that weekend. Its nice to have the science of the eyepeice finally explained to me and Ill certainly look into the 27mm option as I dont have much of a collection yet.
