I love the fact that #Andromeda is pretty huge in our night sky. It's just normally too faint to see. 🔭
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It's the only thing that you can see with the naked eye that's not actually in our galaxy.
I think you can see the Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud and the Triangulum Galaxy too. Way easier with a spotting scope though.
I had read the same to be fair.
Maybe it depends on your eyesight.
That will be one bonus of becoming over 50, and becoming long sighted. 👀
Yes and it definitely would be different if one were living in a city. Once when we lived in a more well lit place in my hometown I disabled a whole street’s worth of street lights with a wood handled set of pruning loppers. I opened up the inspection cover at the base of the one pole, cut all three lines, and bolted it back on. It took the town three weeks to get to it land figure it out. We enjoyed some nice evening skies on the back deck with no light pollution for a good part of the summer. Lol
My Dad used to just lay on his back in their back yard up on the hill and just shoot out the one offending light near their place with a .22