Hi Im a complete noob to astronomy, Ive had a few clear nights hear in Ireland and have been trying to observe m31, is it hard to spot in general with a smallish reflector? Also I saw what I think may have been a fireball lastnight, it was a really bright (curved) streak that appeared for about 3 seconds and appeared to be flying towards the earth. It was much brighter than any of the perseids that I saw a while back... [IMG]Image: http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4060/fireballm.th.jpg (http://img29.imageshack.us/i/fireballm.jpg/)[/IMG] A rough picture of what I saw