Glad to hear from a real galaxy cluster fan! Good report, you'll be in the magazines as a regular soon with that style of writing. One question, on NGC 2768, what do you mean 'the galaxy is centered'? Jack > > > The last few nights have been clear and crisp in northern > Arizona. Tuesday > night, I made the 15-mile drive to Anderson Mesa, Lowell > Observatory's dark sky > site southeast of Flagstaff, for a short observing session. > Two hours later, > I'd made observations and sketches of NGC 2742, NGC 2768, NGC > 2841 (all three > are Herschel 400 objects), and the galaxy cluster involving > NGC 2767, NGC 2769 > and NGC 2771. All can be found in Ursa Major, the great bear, NGC 2768 (http://members.aol.com/billferris/n2768.html ) I observed this 9.8 magnitude elliptical galaxy in my 10-inch Newtonian at 129X. The galaxy is centered and covers an area of 2'.5x2'. The faint outer region is lost against the night sky. NGC 2768 features a bright stellaring at the core and is elongated along an east-west line. A 10th magnitude star shines about 5' due north. A star of similar brightness is seen 4' to the northwest. -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.