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Old 22-04-2016, 01:20 AM
ausastronomer (John Bambury)
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Originally Posted by Renato1 View Post
You'll need a finder chart.
And from that you need to spot the Square of Pegasus (it does look like a square). Andromeda galaxy is below the bottom right-hand side star of the square - but you need a chart to star hop from that star to the galaxy.
Regards,
Renato
If the sky conditions are 1/2 decent its a pretty easy naked eye target and very difficult to miss. If it's not visible naked eye the conditions are pretty poor and you would be better spending your time on targets other than galaxies.

Cheers
John B
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