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Jaycin
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Reged: 07/09/06
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Loc: SW FLorida, USA
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Re: Near M31
08/02/06 05:51 PM
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Well everyone, I owe you all an apology. It seems that I have been giving you all inacurate information regarding the position of what I thought was M110. I got a chance to spend a long time observing this galaxy trio last night and have concluded that Bill was right all along. When I first observed M32 I was viewing M31 at 133X, so it's position appeared to be much further than it really was. It's shape at 266X (my original sketch) was elongated and looked nothing like what I expected M32 to look like. The fact that every picture I've seen and even the sketch that Darrell linked to showed the 3 galaxies "upside down" from what I have been viewing. My guess is that all of these pic's were taken or drawn when they were on the opposite side of the sky from my current perspective.
I'll let you all decide for yourselves. Here's the sketch I made:
Once again, my appologies for a newby error. Thanks for all of your help!
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Jason
Zhumell 8" Dobsonian
60mm Meade Telestar
Sketching the Cosmos
Messier countdown: 102 down, 8 to go! 
Yalta Observatory- North Port, FL
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