<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>My question of "is it possible to view the Milky Way Galaxy using a small 4.5" Telescope" still stand.<br /><br />I'm just wondering did anyone here have that opportunity of viewing a Galaxy on their scope!!!<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />Yes, you can view the Milky Way with a small telescope. In fact, the smaller the better -- the Milky Way is easily the biggest object in the night sky (comprised of most of the other objects in the night sky, technically) and with a powerful telescope, all you'll really see is a dense starfield. Binoculars would be a good choice. With your telescope, use the lowest magnification you've got.<br /><br />The best experience of the Milky Way, however, requires no equipment at all. It is best viewed with the naked eye. Go to a dark place, well away from city lights, during summer in the northern hemisphere. You can't miss it. It looks like a milky expanse stretching from horizon to horizon. The brightest, densest part (towards Sagitarrius) is the galactic center. I cannot see it from my back yard, though -- the city lights eradicate it. Knowing where it is, I can point my telescope and see dense starfields, but to really see the Milky Way, I have to drive miles away. It is truly spectacular, and well worth the trip. <br /><br />EDIT: If you want to see another galaxy, Andromeda is a good target. Again, use low magnification. Binoculars might actually be a better bet. Andromeda is hard to see with the naked eye because it is faint, but it covers more of the night sky than the Moon does. You will find it in (of course) the constellation Andromeda. It is the nearest large galaxy. I haven't tried observing any other galaxies yet with my own 130mm Newtonian (which is about the size of your scope). I have seen the Whirlpool Galaxy through my father's 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain. The real beauty of all of these structures, however, comes in delayed-exposure images to bring out the <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>