Which Galaxy to go for?

[900SL]

I'm 60 degrees north and it's a clear night forecast. Cue trumpets and choir.

430mm focal length and 533MC Pro, Bortle 4 location.

Leo triplet only rises to ~ 40 degrees, ditto Markarians Chain. so I've ruled them out

Bode's looks good, almost overhead most of the evening

M51 seems a little too small on my FOV, but above 50 degrees and rising from 9pm, so could get a good few hours

Have I missed anything?

[ollypenrice]

The thing about M81/82 is that, if you go reasonably deep, you have lots of nice activity between the galaxies as well, notably Arp's Loop and the Holmberg IV dwarf galaxy. There's also IFN in the field. Plenty of entertainment!

Olly

[900SL]

Cheers Olly I didn't know that, thanks for the heads up. I could get 5 hrs depending on the fates etc.

I assume best to shoot OSC with just a UV/IR cut filter (L2) ?

 

[ollypenrice]

21 minutes ago, 900SL said:

Cheers Olly I didn't know that, thanks for the heads up. I could get 5 hrs depending on the fates etc.

I assume best to shoot OSC with just a UV/IR cut filter (L2) ?

 

I'd do that first. The cigar does have distinctive Ha projections but I'd go deep in OSC first.

Olly