Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  Andromeda Galaxy  ·  M 110  ·  M 31  ·  M 32  ·  NGC 205  ·  NGC 221  ·  NGC 224  ·  The star νAnd
ANDROMEDA GALAXY(M31), Yuvnish Bhardwaj
ANDROMEDA GALAXY(M31)
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ANDROMEDA GALAXY(M31)

ANDROMEDA GALAXY(M31), Yuvnish Bhardwaj
ANDROMEDA GALAXY(M31)
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ANDROMEDA GALAXY(M31)

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With an apparent magnitude of 3.4, the Andromeda Galaxy is among the brightest of the Messier objects, making it visible to the naked eye from Earth on moonless nights,even when viewed from areas with moderate light pollution or sky darkness around Bortle scale 4 above.
The Best way to view the galaxy will be with the aid of binoculars perfarably size 7 by 50 which make it more bright and you can appreciate its full stretch with its well known satellite galaxies M32 and M110. A telescope can reveal Andromeda's disk, some of its brightest globular clusters, dark dust lanes and the large star cloud NGC 206.
It is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years (770 kiloparsecs) from Earth and the nearest large galaxy to the Milky way. The Andromeda Galaxy is one of about 100 observable blue shifted galaxies which is expected to merge due to gravitation around 4-5 billion years with the Milky Way to form a giant elliptical galaxy.

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ANDROMEDA GALAXY(M31), Yuvnish Bhardwaj