Quote Originally Posted by Jimi Lowrey View Post
I observed MAC 1853+3307 tonight under not very good conditions. It was picked up at 375X with my finder eyepiece at the end of a chain of stars it was visible as a soft glow at this power approximately 75% of the time. I bumped up the power to 697X and the galaxy I could hold all the time with AV. On a good night I think it would be visible in 18" to 20" class of scope or even a 16"?
I brought the image on my mind and thought about it better. Could you estimate the magnitude of the last star of the chain? The one next to the galaxy. I was seeing something with AV, was it the star or the Galaxy? That caught my attention from the beginning and made me to look at the map if it was a Galaxy. If the this star is high magnitude I was probably seeing with AV the star with the 24"