Which are the brightest galaxy's in Sydney skies at the moment?

White Rabbit · #1 24-05-2007, 05:03 PM

Hi Guys.

I've had my telescope for about 6 months and I'm yet to spy a galaxy through my scope. Where I live the skies are heavily light polluted. I have a meade ETX 125 PE with 2x/3x barlows and 26/15/12mm EP's. Am I doing something wrong or are they just that small and faint that I dont see it even when I'm looking?

Thanks

ving (David) · #2 24-05-2007, 05:06 PM

apart from the milky way? the lmc and smc? centaurus a!

seeker372011 (Narayan) · #3 24-05-2007, 09:59 PM

M 83, M 104, and Centaurus A as Ving has said-all visible with binos from my backyard so should be easy with the ETX 70..not tonight though wait for a dark (new moon ) night

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #4 24-05-2007, 10:01 PM

Sombrero is easy to see even in Full Moon. Worth a try

erick (Eric) · #5 24-05-2007, 11:27 PM

White R - go for Centaurus A (NGC 5128). I like this one because it is very easy to find.

(We'll take the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds as given?)

laika (Brenton) · #6 25-05-2007, 10:03 AM

White Rabbit,
I myself have recently just started veiwing galaxies, the previous comments all are worthy easy targests M104 is great even when the moon is bright but have found that Centaurus A a little harder to find with the moon but still visible.
Another Galaxy that I located last night was NGC4945 a large edge on spiral galaxy not far from Omega Centaurus worth hinting for IMHO.

Just have fun, when you see your first oh what a buzz.

seeker372011 (Narayan) · #7 25-05-2007, 11:06 PM

PS I hope you are using your lowest power eyepiece to look for galaxies...save your Barlow for the moon and planets