NGC 663
Conditions:
Medium seeing, poor transparency, moon at last quarter
Targets Observed:
NGC 663, M31, M110
Notes
Started off looking for NGC 7331 in Pegasus but the moonlight was too bright to find this 9th magnitude galaxy. Turned instead to the open clusters in Casseiopia, and rested on NGC 663. This is a lovely cluster, with a number of stars paired up and appearing to be the same distance apart and the same magnitude. It is the largest of the clusters in a tight filed that includes M103, IC 166, NGC 659 and NGC 654. I'll sketch those later, but tonight I rendered NGC 663.
After that I looked at the Andromeda Galaxy, noticing for the first time M110 as well, quite bright and further away fromt M31's centre than I expected.

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