Going through some objects in Cassiopeia in my ongoing project to re-observe some of the brightest objects, here are some objects on a great night from the Arizona desert. NGC 185 is just barely seen in the 11X80 finder, a very faint haze, better as I move the scope. It is gradually much brighter in the middle and somewhat mottled in appearance.
Averted vision makes it grow.
Going to 150x with the 14mm Meade UWA is a good high power view of this galaxy. It is much smoother in appearance at high power, there are 6 or 8 very faint foreground stars that are now apparent. The core of this galaxy is little elongated in the same PA as the galaxy, and the core has a pretty high surface brightness.