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19-04-2016, 04:37 PM
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finding andrometa
G, day everyone,
When can I see andrometa from
Brisbane, or 2 hours south of Brisbane. Cheers and clear sky's to you all.
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19-04-2016, 05:41 PM
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Probably around mid June in the morning sky (just before sunrise in the NE) till end of November in the evening sky?
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19-04-2016, 06:56 PM
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Mostly harmless...
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Yep, and make sure you have nice dark skies. Binocs probably best way to start looking, although just visible to naked eye. Visible in binocs as a slightly off vertical oblong smear, brighter in the centre (when rising in the NNE part of the sky to meridian).
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19-04-2016, 07:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by landroverthomas
G, day everyone,
When can I see andrometa from
Brisbane, or 2 hours south of Brisbane. Cheers and clear sky's to you all.
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As the others have said, a good pair of Binoculars and also a chart to find where it is in the sky.
BTW it is "Andromeda"
Just a friendly correction.
Welcome to iceinspace.
Cheers
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19-04-2016, 07:37 PM
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Andromeda is best viewed mid October from Australia just after dark if you look north and slowly sets north/west about midnight , it gets to about 15-20 degrees above the northern horizon at its highest from Brisbane about 9pm , its just below ( north ) of Pegasus's tail .
Oh yes to IIS .
Brian.
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20-04-2016, 12:37 AM
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Reflecting on Refracting
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Have managed to see it with a 4" refractor from Melbourne in early December.
Not much to write about, an orange 'star' with a faint wispy bit around it....it is less than 10º above the horizon down here and had to contend with the roof of my house a short time after sunset and my the roof is tin....but I have seen it
Brissy should be a better view.
Matt
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20-04-2016, 03:24 AM
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Dark sky rules !
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MattT
Have managed to see it with a 4" refractor from Melbourne in early December.
Not much to write about, an orange 'star' with a faint wispy bit around it....it is less than 10º above the horizon down here and had to contend with the roof of my house a short time after sunset and my the roof is tin....but I have seen it
Brissy should be a better view.
Matt
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That orange star is Mirach (Beta Andromedae) with the NGC 404 close to it. The M31 slightly further north but will be when in upper culmination 90-38-40 = 12 degrees high.
-40 is the declination of M31, 38 the latitude of MEL using the max. alt above North = 90-latitude + declination rule.
In BNE (27 S) it is 90-27-40 = at most 23º above the horizon, which allows viewing details with a telescope as small as 10cm as long you avoid the light soup of BNE (or, worse, Gold Coast).
But you have to wait until late winter / spring as by then it will be visible in the morning sky.
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20-04-2016, 08:05 AM
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Reflecting on Refracting
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The orange star was in fact M31...I was star hopping with skysafari, a great tool to have.
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20-04-2016, 03:51 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mattt
the orange star was in fact m31...i was star hopping with skysafari, a great tool to have.
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wtf?!
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20-04-2016, 04:24 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MattT
The orange star was in fact M31...I was star hopping with skysafari, a great tool to have.
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I have never heard of anyone confusing the Andromeda galaxy with an Orange star.
Cheers
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20-04-2016, 08:20 PM
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Reflecting on Refracting
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Looking through all that atmosphere about 10 degrees above the horizon in Summer with a 4" Refractor, that is what M31 looks like....a big orange star that obviously isn't a star but looks like one at quick glance....further scrunity shows a faint bit of fuzz that is Galaxy viewing from a city
Edit: eyepiece was a 40mm 68 degree.
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20-04-2016, 08:33 PM
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Matt, the orange star definitely was not M31. M31 is a long smear[as RobF
described it] which is around 3 to 5 times the apparent diameter of the moon
[ depending upon what you are using to view it ].
raymo
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20-04-2016, 08:39 PM
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Mostly harmless...
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21-04-2016, 04:39 AM
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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
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22-04-2016, 01:14 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by astroron
I have never heard of anyone confusing the Andromeda galaxy with an Orange star.
Cheers
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Me either Ron. Double the size of the full moon on its short axis and over 6 times the size of the full moon on its long axis.
Cheers
John B
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22-04-2016, 01:20 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Renato1
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
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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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24-04-2016, 04:55 PM
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Thanks for the kind welcome.
Thanks for the replies and kind welcomes. I have just purchase a pair of mini giants15x65, and have had a great time seeing Europa, Ganymede and Io. Have been trying to spot a galaxy apart from our own. The moon has not helped. This is why I was hoping to see andrometa. What are some suitable galaxys to be seen through the binoculars. Thanks again and clear sky's to you all.
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24-04-2016, 05:03 PM
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Dark sky rules !
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This is probably the best time of the year. The autumn sky has lots of galaxies. Virgo, Coma Berenice, and a rather bright one is M83 in Centaurus.
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10-05-2016, 03:18 PM
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In hobart when is it at it's highest? Its hard to tell from sky safari, but looks like it just gets there in winter?
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10-05-2016, 03:32 PM
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If you want to see galaxies in binos try the LMC and SMC!
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