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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)
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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 stunning! To find it in the sky we can use peak on the 17th to 18th November. The the W of Cassiopeia as a pointer. M31 sits Leonid shower has produced very high in the constellation of Andromeda, which numbers of meteors in past years but has a less prominent form. So we can start numbers have fallen drastically in recent at the narrow times. We can expect to part of the W in see around fifteen per Cassiopeia and follow its tip towards the three The most striking meteor shower this month will be hour this year. The speeds of around 70km per second are the brighter stars in the Leonids fastest recorded. They can Andromeda. The also leave very persistent spiral galaxy can trains across the sky. As be found just a the New Moon will have short hop back from the second of those, been on the 15th November, conditions towards the W. should be really good for observing. You Leonids Meteor Shower should wait for very dark skies after 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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