1 NGC 821
ur starting object is mag. +11.3 NGC 821, an elliptical galaxy in the extreme southwest corner of Aries, 12.5° south of mag. +2.0 Hamal (Alpha (α) Arietis). A mag. +9.2 foreground star lies a fraction to the west-northwest of the galaxy’s centre. Even in a 250mm scope, NGC 821 is little more than a smudge, 1.4x0.6 arcminutes across and elongated from southwest-northeast. A 300mm scope doesn’t pull a great deal more from