Agree about IC 1613. O'Meara's own Hidden Treasures book gets a lot of (easier) nice targets in that part of the sky. I don't have it on me, but the Aries galaxy is drfinitely there. Also a lot of nice stuff in Fornax/Eridanus too southerly for the H400. pr. MvO Sent from Garminfone by T-Mobile. Debbie <astrodeb@beyondbb.com> wrote:
Tuesday night the sky was clear and calm so Dave and I went out near Virgin, UT. I looked at a few galaxies in the constellation Pisces. M74, NGC 520, a fine Arp galaxy, and NGC 660,a galaxy I recently saw in an astrophoto . My digital setting circles were accurate so I decided to try the Caldwell object IC 1613. I knew it would be faint and dim which it was. There was just a subtle brightening against the sky background. If my eyes had not been dark adapted, I would have never seen it or stumbled upon it accidentally. This is one of those objects that you look at once and then never again.
Steven James O'Meara asked the same question and he had a 4" refractor not a 15" dobsonian reflector. There have been Caldwell objects that I have been impressed with and some that I thought did not belong there. I thought NGC 520 and NGC 772 were much more interesting galaxies than IC 1613.
The largest and brightest galaxy in Aries is NGC 772, a magnitude 10.3 spiral measuring 7.1' by 4.5'. This galaxy is relatively easy to find because it lies slightly less then 2 degrees east-southeast of the 4th magnitude star Gamma Arietis.
Debbie
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