I very much enjoyed pt 1 of Jim Al-Khalili's new BBC4 documentary about the beginning and end of the universe. The section on Edwin Hubble and his Cepheid variable inspired me to go back and have a look at my own data and see if my humble 6" RC had managed to pick it up. I had a good stack of luminance subs to look at from last September.
After working out exactly where I should be looking I zoomed in, and there she was!
Here's a little bit a blurb I wrote for
Yes, that is what I thought until today, that the bright spots in M31 were either something like large globular clusters or Milky Way stars that just happened to be in that direction.