Find a Galaxy
February 19, 2010 by
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Purchase: hilaroad.com This video demonstrates how to find the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). This galaxy is 2.5 million light years from earth but with some basic knowledge of the night sky and a pair of binoculars it is actually possible to see it! The video is designed for anyone interested in astronomy and it also provides support for the astronomy component of any science curriculum.
awesome videos
Finding galaxies is easy once you have Stellarium on your computer…its a free download and real-time picture of whats in the night sky at that time and at your location…its brill.
Very well explained. Thanks for sharing!
Hi, thank you so much on this how to video. I have an refractor telescope 90mm f/5,5. I finded all planets besides Mercury, Mizar star, pleiades, Orion, but never Andromeda. Will try with this explanation first next clear night sky.
I use 15 x 70 ’s and barely found it. Heard it can be seen eye-naked….
great vid. light pollution sucks though, i use 15×70’s and barely found it…
great video…didn’t know this.
It’s a very nice video, and provides excellent details.
I have one problem… How do I find the Andromeda Galaxy in the Southern Hemisphere?
it looks like a small nebulae doesn’t it?
i saw it with my celestron astromaster 130eq and its pretty big but the problem is my light pollution and when i saw it , it was in time of high pressure humidity so ,but i also saw it with my binoculars it loks like a bright cloud in space!!
space is such a big place .
Wonderful!
So many videos tell you about the Andromeda, but not how to find it and look at it yourself.
This is very nicely done!
Very nice to watch and its interesting.
Nice vid I’m trying tonight to find it with my 8-20×50 binoculars : )
very educating
I think the way the clock rotates come from the way the Earth rotates around the sun. Early watches was constructed to make the sun cast a shadow and measure what time it is. No facts, this is my theorie.
How compelling.
nice video thanks!
your so cool man thx for uploading this vid
I found M31 last night
i thought we can see the andromeda galaxy in autum. maybe year long?
Thank you so much!!
If the milky way rotates in a clockwise motion did that have any effect on which direction the clocks turn?
or just a coincidence that maybe something beyond our understanding influenced us to choose that direction for the hands to rotate?
lol i actually saw Andromeda through the binoculars but wasn’t very clear
@remix111able U need to check what a galaxy is on wikipedia or something. or just type galaxies in the youtube search engine. It’s basically a collection of matter all held together by gravity; in them u can expect to find 200-400 billion stars! crazy huh!
I use the Cassiopaeia pointer to point out the Pegasus star, and follow the line from Pegasus to M31.