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Old 16-09-2005, 09:01 PM
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I don't think you will see it very well from that far south David. It only gets 32 degrees above our northern horizon here and we're about 26.5 degrees south. I haven't seen it but its on my list to see and image for the season.

Info: around 40 arcminutes in diameter (1.3 moons), mag 5.5-6.4 depending where you read, but its surface brightness is only mag 14. Being a face on spiral its stellar equivelant mag is spread out over quite an area severely lowering its brightness.

check it out here http://www.seds.org/~spider/ngc/ngc.cgi?m33
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