Galaxies

Object reference	Size	Shape	Visual Scale	Telescope used
NGC 278	very small	circular	2	Skywatcher 10 inch
NGC 185	large	circular	1	Darkstar 14 inch
NGC 147	large	oval	<0.5	Darkstar 14 inch
NGC 1343	very small	oval	<0.5	Darkstar 14 inch

This table is sorted by visual scale and then size.

Other notes

Best placed late autum and early winter.

Cassiopeas has galactic co-ordinates of approximately 120, -5.

So when you look at this constellation you are looking through the galactic plane along the Perseus arm of our spiral galaxy.

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