Last night decided to explore Cassiopia region, and according to the Astronomy: def guide, There is a unique cluster right below Delta: NGC 457, or more modernly known as the ET cluster. This is because observers reported the shape looks like ET, the Extra Terrestrial !
BY VURT (pun intended) it really DOES! A very nice little cluster. Found it pretty easiliy with the help of the Telrad. Made an eyepiece impression and ( see above), quite stricking. There are two bright stars which form the eyes, and a nice concentrated area where the heart is, and two extended arms and short legs
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I also found for the first time M31, the andromeda galaxy. Hard to see the spiral shape, but looked mostly like a very large Glob cluster...very nice! Took a while to find it as Andromeda's stars were rather faint in my light polluted skies...but persistance pays off...and I found it!
TimC