This object is a quasar and very probably the most distant object I will ever see in my telescope visible at low power located inside a triangle of three stars about 15"across consisting of a magnitude 10.1 star at its SE side, a magnitude in 11.9 star on the western side and a magnitude 12.6 star on the northern side and inside this triangle is a smaller triangle of stars of which 3C273 is the bottom right star of this triangle. Visually 3C273 looks stellar, it's magnitude is 12.8 and looked blueish colour but the amazing thing about this object is that it's at the astounding distance of 920MPc or in old money about 3,000,000,000 ly away and at this distance is receding at 29,827 mi./s or 16% the speed of light.
M 87 - 6 inch refractor plus Watec
M87 was visible as a bright circular glow very condensed at the centre and quite quickly fading to a diffuse haze rather like an unresolved globular cluster. The centre of M87 had a very bright almost stellar nucleus but no detail was visible but several other galaxies were visible in the field of view consisting of NGC 4476 visible as a magnitude 13.2 fuzzy patch 1.8'x 1.2' in diameter, NGC 4478 of magnitude 12.2 and 1.7'x 1.4' across, NGC4486A was a magnitude 13.3 circular fuzzy glow a mere 55"x 45"and finally NGC 4486B which looked fainter than the previous galaxy at magnitude 14.3 and 19"x 18" in diameter.
M 59 - 8.75 inch reflector
M 59 was seen as a moderately faint oval nebula orientated north- south and about 3' in diameter with a brighter inner region and a stellar nucleus, it also had a smooth texture. A few faint stars perhaps magnitude 10 to 11 surrounded it.
M 60 - 8.75 inch reflector
M 60 was seen as a faint possibly oval nebulosity elongated East West with a brighter inner region and stellar nucleus about 3' in diameter, it had a smooth texture and no other detail was visible.