Galaxies

Object reference	Size	Shape	Visual Scale	Telescope used
NGC 2300	small	circular	1	Skywatcher 10 inch
NGC 6946	large	circular	<0.5	Skywatcher 10 inch
NGC 6951	small	circular	<0.5	Skywatcher 10 inch
NGC 1184	very small	slither	<0.5	Skywatcher 10 inch

This table is sorted by visual scale and then size.

Other notes

Best in late autumn and early winter.

Cephus has galactic co-ordinates of approximately 110, 10.

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

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