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astronron
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My list of favourit galaxies
North! Leo Triplet, ngc 4565, ngc 891.
South! ngc 253, ngc 4945, ngc 5128, and the Grus triplet.
(ngc's 7582,7590,7599).
These are all spectacular in a 16" scope with a 13mm Nagler
from my location in Australia 26:38:22 S 152:41:34 E
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Ptarmigan
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NGC 4565. 
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Downward Bound
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Quote:
My list of favourit galaxies
North! Leo Triplet, ngc 4565, ngc 891.
South! ngc 253, ngc 4945, ngc 5128, and the Grus triplet.
(ngc's 7582,7590,7599).
These are all spectacular in a 16" scope with a 13mm Nagler
from my location in Australia 26:38:22 S 152:41:34 E
Welcome to Cloudy Nights and thanks for your suggestions! I was lucky once to have a couple of viewing nights under perfect skies and a new moon down your way - just outside of Byron Bay. You are very fortunate to live in an amazing place - one of the most beautiful places in the world that I have seen.
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astronron
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I must admit that NGC 891 is not spectacular from my location, but it is a target along with Stephens Quintet I look for when they are in the sky, even though observing them is hard on my 65 year old knees 
Ron
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Downward Bound
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My rough tally shows the most popular choices so far to be:
NGC 256 - 9 votes
NGC 4565, NGC 7331 - 8 votes each
NGC 3628, NGC 6946, NGC 7332 and NGC 891 - 4 votes each
NGC 2903, NGC 2403 - 3 votes
NGC 2683, NGC 7339, NGC 7479 and the Milky Way - each with 2 votes
And 1 vote for 1023, 247, 1300, 1365, 6939, 1313, 292, 55, 2655, 3077, 4490, 7425, 5248, 5746, 5199, 2841, 3115 4314, 4395, 4449, 4526, 4559, 497, 5907, 5474, 4762, IC-342 and PGC-17223
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Bill
'flector: R200SS, 22" f/3.6 (on order)
'fractors: PST, AT-66, TV-85, FS-102, NP-127, TMB-152
'bins: 15x63, 10x52, 22x85
410+028B, Sphinx, Telepod, EZ Touch, G-11
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Tony Flanders
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My rough tally shows the most popular choices so far to be:
But the vote is clearly skewed by the fact that half your respondents listed only galaxies that are visible in the fall, and the other half did not.
Without the seasonal factor, NGC 256 and 7331 would certainly have come out far below NGC 4565.
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astronron
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Loc: Queensland Australia
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NGC 256 is a cluster and Nebula in the SMC 
after looking back through the posts I see you must mean NGC 253
Ron
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Edited by astronron (10/16/08 02:12 AM)
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Andreas.V
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My favorit galaxy must be Ngc 7331 i Pegasus.
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Crossen
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Loc: Vienna
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My favorite galaxy is NGC 253 of the Sculptor Group. The reason is the photograph of it I saw long ago in the old Time-Life book "The Universe", which showed it as a blue and silver wheel viewed edge-on--it looked like a whole galaxy of Rigel-type supergiants! Years later I was surprised and delighted by how easy NGC 253 is to see in binoculars.
As far as pop in the eyepiece, my most memorable (non-Messier) galaxy experience was NGC 4565. When I first looked for it with my little self-assembled 6-inch f/8 Newtonian (on a beautiful warm mid-April evening), I certainly did not expect to see its dust lane--but, good grief, there it was! It was indescribably delicate.
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Mr. Bill
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The Milky Way....
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Downward Bound
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But the vote is clearly skewed by the fact that half your respondents listed only galaxies that are visible in the fall, and the other half did not.
Without the seasonal factor, NGC 256 and 7331 would certainly have come out far below NGC 4565.
You're completely right. My OP said mid-northern Lats and this time of year but there were a number of votes for objects that missed either or both qualifiers. I just threw everything in to my tally - that's why I qualified it as "rough" . 
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'fractors: PST, AT-66, TV-85, FS-102, NP-127, TMB-152
'bins: 15x63, 10x52, 22x85
410+028B, Sphinx, Telepod, EZ Touch, G-11
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