Author Topic: Trying to find Andromeda (Read 21974 times)

Arata · « **on:** October 24, 2009, 03:12:24 PM »

It's 7:00 where I am, the sky is pitch dark, and the milky way is lighting up the sky like a cosmic lightshow.
I think this is a good time to find M31, but I'm having trouble.
I'm looking in the constellation Cassiopeia, but I can't see Andromeda's disc.
I tried using my binoculars, but I still cant see it.
Im not having trouble with light pollution, because my town is very small and we have little light pollution so I can see the night sky clearly.
Can someone help?

monmarfori · « **Reply #1 on:** October 24, 2009, 03:22:28 PM »

I will have seen MW everytime if i have a telescope that it is clear.

Arata · « **Reply #2 on:** October 24, 2009, 03:43:15 PM »

You mean that whenever it's clear, you have your telescope and you can see the milky way?

Naru523 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 24, 2009, 05:17:51 PM »

Andromeda should be in the Andromeda Constellation.

deoxy99 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 24, 2009, 06:35:51 PM »

Andromeda found in Andromeda. Funny

Naru523 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 24, 2009, 06:46:14 PM »

lol I think the galaxy was named after the constellation

Arata · « **Reply #6 on:** October 24, 2009, 08:49:45 PM »

IT's probably called that because it's the largest galaxy in that constellation.

witold · « **Reply #7 on:** October 25, 2009, 04:03:35 AM »

Andromeda is near Cassiopeia and Pegasus

So you will need very good scopes. Remember Solar system is rotating,Milky way is rotating. Andromeda can be somewhere else.

Or try instructions in this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD3Nxu-RbvM

Arata · « **Reply #8 on:** October 25, 2009, 08:47:37 AM »

Quote from: witold on October 25, 2009, 04:03:35 AM

Andromeda is near Cassiopeia and Pegasus

So you will need very good scopes. Remember Solar system is rotating,Milky way is rotating. Andromeda can be somewhere else.

Or try instructions in this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD3Nxu-RbvM

I've seen the video many times. I still cant find it.

witold · « **Reply #9 on:** October 25, 2009, 10:43:01 AM »

Again.Remember Solar system is rotating,Milky way is rotating. Andromeda can be somewhere else.

Bla · « **Reply #10 on:** October 25, 2009, 11:03:27 AM »

The sun orbits the Milky Way one time every 220 million years, I doubt that can have any influence.

And the Earth orbits the Sun once a year, ofc. That makes the constellations appear in different places during the year, like a sphere rotating around the north and south poles. Cassiopeia is often not so hard to find, try finding that and then use the right part of the W as an arrow that leads to the Andromeda Galaxy if you make it three times longer (or place three of them besides each other).

Not that I'm trying to sound clever or anything - I haven't found it yet either.

I haven't looked so much during the last year though.

Magnetar · « **Reply #11 on:** October 25, 2009, 01:09:19 PM »

The quality of Andromeda pretty much depends on where you put up your tscope and how large the tube is. For example: I can scout andromeda in a binocular, but using the tscope rarely doesn't improve much because of some local light pollution, altough andromeda is the brightest galaxy in our nightly sky.

Dan Dixon · « **Reply #12 on:** November 14, 2009, 02:33:57 PM »

Quote from: Arata on October 24, 2009, 03:12:24 PM

Can someone help?

Check out Stellarium. It will show you exactly where in the sky to look.
http://www.stellarium.org/

atomic7732 · « **Reply #13 on:** November 14, 2009, 03:01:08 PM »

That is a very awesome program.

monmarfori · « **Reply #14 on:** November 14, 2009, 03:27:13 PM »

No Andromeda, no stars, the moon gone.

monmarfori · « **Reply #15 on:** November 20, 2009, 03:40:52 PM »

I have been seen andromeda rising with dark clouds yesterday because it is best viewed in Nov. but no milky way and has a satellite named M32 at 6:45 pm.

atomic7732 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 20, 2009, 03:48:38 PM »

Venus is the morning.

APODman · « **Reply #17 on:** November 23, 2009, 01:59:56 PM »

Andromeda is easy to find at naked eye, when you find it look above ( run a simulation in Stellarium ) and try search for M33 ( Triangulum Galaxy ), itÂ´s a beautiful galaxy.

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Naru523 · « **Reply #18 on:** January 12, 2010, 08:32:21 PM »

Agh... it's always cloudy here so I can't look at stars/moons/planets/galaxies/etc.

$:-\$

atomic7732 · « **Reply #19 on:** January 12, 2010, 08:47:48 PM »

Yay! That means the extratropical storm is coming!

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/browsw.html - this will not look the same as i am meantioning by Jan 14!

Naru523 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 12, 2010, 10:19:20 PM »

No wonder... it was raining today too LOL!

FGFG · « **Reply #21 on:** January 13, 2010, 03:07:40 AM »

I didn't see the videos but this is my method

In the image below you can see Cassiopea constellation to the right and the Andromeda galaxy to the left.

Look at Gamma Cassiopeae, Shedir, and Caph, 3 of the stars of Cassiopea: they are like an arrow pointing to Mirach, in the Andromeda constellation.

Link Mirach to Shedir

A little bit under 1/3 of the distance Mirach - Shedir there is Andromeda galaxy

deoxy99 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 02, 2010, 06:31:12 PM »

Quote from: Naru523 on January 12, 2010, 10:19:20 PM

No wonder... it was raining today too LOL!

Who cared if rained then?

Naru523 · « **Reply #23 on:** February 02, 2010, 08:07:27 PM »

* cough * I would. * cough *

atomic7732 · « **Reply #24 on:** February 02, 2010, 09:06:05 PM »

Deoxy.

Maybe *cough* because you *cough* wouldn't *sfx - choke*

BE ABLE TO SEE IT

? *sfx - HMMMMMM??*

I went crazy.

Sorry.

deoxy99 · « **Reply #25 on:** February 03, 2010, 08:05:33 AM »

I love rain!