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Originally Posted by Blue Skies
How odd. There are lots of irregular galaxies. Perhaps it was NGC 300, the Cigar galaxy? Or have I mixed that up with NGC 55... Depends where it was, without some idea of the area of sky or the coordinates we probably can't be more specific.
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Yup. 300 is a nice loose spiral, 55 is the cigar. It's certainly the brightest irregular I can think of after the smc.