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RolandosCY
March 28th, 2014, 08:19 AM
As seen through my 18" on wednesday night from my home at Mosfiloti, Cyprus.... Enjoy!

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Ivan Maly
March 28th, 2014, 01:45 PM
Nice detail. This galaxy is rarely above the horizon murk here (more a fault of our humidity than of our latitude), and so far I have only seen Herschel's "large opening with a branch", like this (12"):

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jLAQGAW69ik/T0AsiJngZ_I/AAAAAAAAAHo/a3JzrZa3JpI/s1600/2012-02-17+C61.jpg
Uwe Glahn
March 29th, 2014, 03:24 PM
Very nice and realistic sketch. The knots fits perfectly.

With my smaller 14.5" I could separate also a few knots but from southern Germany it was always difficult to see the whole morphology as good as your sketch shows.

In contrast I remember the picture through the eyepiece of a 24" Newton from Namibia, wow, what details.

14.5", 283x-404x, NELM 6m5+, Seeing II
http://www.deepsky-visuell.de/Zeichnungen/NGC4038_NGC4039.jpg
akarsh
May 6th, 2023, 01:38 AM
As seen through my 18" on wednesday night from my home at Mosfiloti, Cyprus.... Enjoy!

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This is an excellent sketch with a lot of detail for an 18"!
Don Pensack
May 7th, 2023, 01:53 PM
I've always seen these (12.5", 21.4-21.5 skies) as two cooked shrimp.
I never see the full length of the tails, but I always see some tail on each.
The small, round, B&W image here is very close to the visual view. Maybe the visual tails are a tad shorter in the eyepiece.
http://www.jwinman.com/starcharts/NGC%204038%20chart.htm