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Old 26-02-2015, 09:27 PM
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I meant to reply a while back, but it slipped my mind. The obvious one at the moment is M104 (the Sombrero Galaxy). Of course you have to wait til about midnight ATM for it to be high enough to be worthwhile, and wil/ be small in your scope, but is a cracker object. NGC 5128 (Centaurus A) is also becoming prominent, but is quite low in surface brightness so in your scope is more of a smudge. The pairing of M65 and M66 (the bright 2 galaxies in the Leo triplet) are also nice and should be easy to see in the same field.
Remember, galaxies are the ultimate "faint fuzzies" very hard to see much detail without dark skies, dark adaption, averted vision and a bit of aperture helps!!

Malcolm
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