Your perusal of M33 is most interesting and informative. I was wondering what is the easy way to make these arcminute measurements in the field. Do you just guesstimate or have a template or reticle in the eyepiece, or use a high-power eyepiece with a small known field or what? Jack > NGC 604 is the largest and brightest of these. We first > located a pair of > 10th and 11th magnitude stars blazing 11.5 arcminutes > north-northeast of M33's > core region. They lie about 5' north of the stellar nursery, > are separated by > about an arcminute and point the way to 10.9 magnitude Tycho > 2293:642:1. > > Regards, > Bill Ferris -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.