Hi Les,
Mate, no offense taken
I understand exactly what you are saying.
What caught me by surprise was I had seen Polarissima Australis on other occasions, and I had not seen that other faint fuzzy. This particular observation and sketch was done during the Qld Astrofest. I had asked people with various astro apps to look up "PA" to try to identify this new faint fuzzy, and nothing was to be found.
It was only after I got back home two things:
1, Check this sighting through another big dob - there were plenty there.
2, That it could have been an unreported comet - it had every appearance of being a comet, being round, diffuse and no immediate nucleus. But without being aware of this possibility, and not being aware of the verification process for a positive identification, nothing more I can do
Oh well... We had seen four other comets that night.
If it was a new comet, it slipped through through my eyepiece...
On the plus side, i have become acquainted with the verification process laid out by the International Astronomical Union.
Alex.