Amazing the difference a better night makes, or maybe it's the fact I wasn't working backwards-&-forwards from chart to eyepiece tonight. 4.5" f8 reflector again at 43x (21mm eyepiece).
But there was much more to see anyway, what a beautiful field or two at low powers! I could pick up fainter extensions of NGC 346, and Lindsay 84 was quite easy (although dim) in direct vision. Could make out more of the tiny faint ones including NGC 422 in averted vision.
Away from the SMC, galaxy NGC 253 was stunning and I could see mottling and just make out some of the brighter 'lanes'. Maybe best view ever in this little scope, but then again my memory is not that... er... um... whatever... Comet 168P/Hergenrother was easy to see - I could make out about 4' of tail in around PA135 to 140. Had a squizz at ghost-galaxy NGC 247 and also the Fornax galaxy cluster. Tarantula Nebula surprisingly didn't look all that flash but 47 Tucanae was to die for!!
Cheers -