Right it may not be realistic to answer this question with any certainty but it would be interesting to hear people's opinions on which galaxy they think seems to have the brightest core region as seen visually. Only considering the innermost one square arcsecond or so limits big core region galaxies from having an advantage over more distant galaxies that might still have a very bright stellar type nucleus. My vote that I would choose if I had to would be M32. The core is simply amazingly bright when examining the only the core. I am interested in hearing others opinions on if they think they know of a galaxy that might have a brighter 1 square arcsecond region than M32.