Andromeda Galaxy
Amateur observing
The Andromeda Galaxy is the most distant object and the only spiral galaxy outside of our Milky Way able to be seen with the naked eye. The galaxy is commonly located in the sky in reference to the constellations Cassiopeia and Pegasus. Andromeda is best seen during autumn nights in the Northern Hemisphere when it passes high overheard, reaching its highest point around midnight in October, and two hours later each successive month. It rises in the west in September and sets in the east in February. From the Southern Hemisphere the Andromeda Galaxy is visible between October and December, best viewed from as far north as possible. Binoculars can reveal some larger structures of the galaxy and its two brightest satellite galaxies, M32 and M110. An amateur telescope can reveal Andromeda's disk, some of its brightest globular clusters, dark dust lanes and the large star cloud NGC 206.
Andromeda Galaxy-56