Looking at Galaxy's With an 8" SCT

[astroron (Ron)]

You should see lots of galaxies with an 8" scope
I did a visual Supernova search for about ten years with my Celestron 20cm SCT and saw Supernova stars down to 14.5 magnitude in galaxies to 13mag
Dark sky's are a big advantage but some of the brighter galaxies are visible in medium polluted sky's.
cheers

[mental4astro (Alexander)]

Originally Posted by White Rabbit

I have an 8" newt and live in very light polluted sky's and I've never seen a galaxy. Hell, I've never seen one with my 12" let alone the 8.

You should join us on our regular-ish get togethers at Randwick Girls' High. Last session we about a month ago, we bagged M104, M83, M65 & M 66, M95 M96 & M 106 and NGC 5128. All in scopes from 8" to 17.5", .

[M54 (Molly)]

An 8" is totally adequate for galaxies.

My scope is a 5" and I've seen M83, M104, ngc 5128, M31, M110, M32, and more, albeit from a dark sky site.

I wouldn't be able to find them from suburbia.