I tried SHK 49 last night and found it pretty tough under less than ideal conditions here in West Texas. I have viewed this faint group before and am familial with the field. SHK 49 is near a nice double star so its easy to ID the field, at 375X I could not see any of the galaxies so I bumped up the power to 488X still nothing I then tried 697X and had little luck at that power also, I then tried 488X with a ZAO II 10MM this helped the view with the higher light transmission eyepiece. I could see a small elongated glow a small percentage of the time with AV only with this eyepiece. I looked for a long while and the small unresolved glow would come and go with the seeing more go! than come.