M83 down, four more to go

Finally after weeks of either bright moon or rainy skies, a dark clear night. Hydra was up in an almost perfect spot for viewing M83 at 9:30 tonight so I grabbed my 7x50's and pocket atlas and headed for the deck. On a line between Menkent and Gamma Hydrae, there are two small asterisms: one a group of four mag 4 stars (1,2,3,4 Cen) that look to me like a satellite dish on a pedestal with the dish pointed at M83, the other is an arc of three mag 6 stars with a group of two stars off toward the dish. M83 forms a triangle with these two just to the west. It's big and almost covered half the field of my 10mm ep. I thought the view was a bit better in my 27mm ep though and was able to clearly make out the bar and at least imagined I saw one of the spiral arms.
Leo was chasing Mars tonight and Saturn is the olive in Virgo's martini. It was getting a bit damp from the dew so I quit early at about 10:30.