astronomy / home sketched and imaged a number of times over the last few years, partly because it is so bright. It sits close to the well defined V shape, forming part of the Bull's head in Taurus. The brightest star in this area - the eye of the bull - is the beautiful orange Aldbaran. This is a stunning sight through binoculars. Our Nearest Galactic Neighbour Andromeda (aka M31) The beautiful Andromeda Galaxy, is around 220,000 light years across. It is the closest galaxy (just 2.5 million light years away) to our Milky Way and twice the width. It can be seen with the naked eye from dark locations. It is a really well placed object to view at this time of year being directly south and high in the sky. It is one of the furthest away objects we can
view unaided but with binoculars it is active from the 5th to 29th November and peak on the 17th to 18th November. The stunning! To find it in the sky we can use Leonid shower has produced very high the W of Cassiopeia as a pointer. M31 sits numbers of meteors in past years but in the constellation of Andromeda, which numbers have fallen drastically in recent has a less prominent form. So we can start times. We can expect to at the narrow see around fifteen per part of the W in hour this year. The speeds Cassiopeia and The most striking meteor of around 70km per follow its tip shower this month will be second are the towards the three the Leonids fastest recorded. They can brighter stars in also leave very persistent Andromeda. The trains across the sky. As spiral galaxy can the New Moon will have be found just a been on the 15th November, conditions short hop back from the second of those, should be really good for observing. You towards the W. should wait for very dark skies after Leonids Meteor Shower midnight if possible and look for Leo to The most striking meteor shower this rise in the east making sure you have a month will be the Leonids. They will be clear view of the sky.
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