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Hi Ving
Thanks for that. I think part of my confusion was that the only visual representations I had are the fantastic pictures of Andromeda and that M110 blob thingy next to it, so seeing the smudge was a surprise. It seemed to fill about a third of the 12.4mm Plossl eyepiece, so I knew that it was large. I was glad to have finally found it, and dragged my wife out of bed to see it. Iinitially M31 reminded me of a faint version of Tuc 47 that I also found last night for the first time. Hard to believe that I'm actually seeing Andromeda as it was 2,000,000 years ago. Fantastic!
Can't wait to get my Hyperion 8mm on it when it arrives. I'm also going to have to get a 10" Dob to get more light in to resolve it even more.
Thanks again.
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