Re: The whirlpool
Andromedia looks ok through mine,I could definitly make out the center and the outer edges of it, but later I was told that was the middle. It turns out the real outer edges of it were not seen at all and it would span three feilds of view for my eyepeice. (niggest I have is 25mm)
I think I may have treid to spy the wirlpool once, but the sky was never dark enough. Are the wirlpool and cartwheel the same? they don't look it. The cartwheel reminds me more of the ring nebula, my favorite besides the good old orion nebula ;-)
-Justin Kelly