Where can I find the Andromeda Galaxy in the sky on a dark night. Where do I look?
November is best the time to see the Andromeda Galaxy. To see this requires good eyesight and a dark and crystal-clear night with no street or house lighting nearby. With the unaided eye it appears as nothing more than an indefinite, mysterious glow: a diffuse elongated smear perhaps two or three times the apparent width of the moon. To find it, locate the Great Square of Pegasus. Then, focus binoculars on the bright star Alpheratz, which is at the upper left corner of the square. Then move straight across to the east (left) and get the star Mirach in Andromeda in your field of view. Then move slowly up to a fairly bright star above Mirach and continue to run up in the same direction until you find the “little cloud.” That will be your stopping place. It is the most distant object that can be seen with the unaided eye and has been estimated to be nearly 200,000 light-years in diameter, or one and a half times as wide as our own Milky Way galaxy. Its bright nucleus is the hazy patch tha
