At sundown the Autumn sky is dominated by the great square of Pegasus. The stars of the square are jumping off points for many deep sky objects. There are several binocular objects that are also naked eye if one can make it to dark skies. The northeast star of the square is the star Alpheratz, which is actually in the constellation Andromeda. If one moves east to Mirach then north one comes to The Andromeda Galaxy, M31. M31 is a naked eye object at mag 4.4 and over 4 degrees in size. In comparison, a closed fist at arms length […]
Constellations
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