09-30-2019, 04:08 PM
pdq wrote:
I’d try for the Andromeda galaxy on a moonless night in the deep country. The A.G. is actually about 3 times as wide as the moon in the sky, just way fainter.
Tha’d be cool.
Andromeda and a great many other faint things are visible with the naked eye at a truly dark sky site. There are some sites less than 2 hours away from the beacon of photonic excess known as LA, so dark sky is pretty easily reachable to many people.
Fun fact: the Andromeda Galaxy is the farthest thing easily visible with the naked eye at more than 2 million light years away, which means you're seeing the combined light emitted by billions of stars in the galaxy when Australopithecus still roamed this planet.