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Paul_R
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Re: Near M31
07/30/06 10:31 AM
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Just did a check in my sky atlas... what you saw was NGC 278! It's six degrees away from M31, across the border in Cassiopeia. The confusion is that right next to it is a variable star, RV Cass. The pocket atlas, like my sky atlas, labels them right next to each other making it look like RV 278, which doesn't exist.
By the way, ngc 278 seems to be a small faint sucker (mag data vary), so congrats on spotting it.
http://www.seds.org/~spider/ngc/ngc.cgi?NGC278
Although an observer's report describges it as "fairly bright smudge" peanut shaped! Hmm... worth tracking down!
http://clifty.com/scott/DSO/278.html
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