Seeing Double: Finder Charts

By: The Editors of Sky & Telescope March 18, 2026 0

If you stumbled across this page, then you very likely enjoyed reading Contributing Editor Steve Gottlieb's Going Deep column in the May 2026 issue of Sky & Telescope. In the article, Gottlieb hunts down challenging galaxy pairs and invites you to do the same. He covers seven targets in five constellations. Spend some time these spring nights deploying your larger telescopes in the quest for these targets.

To do so, you can use the coordinates given in the table in the article on page 60, and if you find them helpful, below are some finder charts you can use. In all the charts, the target name is given at top left and is circled with a dashed cyan circle, and the field of view is noted at top right. Some brighter stars are labeled as are select galaxies, along with their magnitudes given without the decimal point.

Happy hunting!