Andromeda And
Andromeda is one of the 88 constellations, covering 724 square degrees of the sky (19th largest). It is highest at midnight in September and best in the evening sky in October and November.
9 of its best-known objects have a page of their own here.
Facts
| Abbreviation | And |
|---|---|
| Size | 724 square degrees (19th largest of the 88; the full Moon covers about 0.2) |
| Middle (J2000) | 0h 40m, +40° |
| Highest at midnight | September (in the evening, around 8–10 pm: October and November) |
| How high | From India (about 20° N) its middle climbs to about 70° above the horizon; from 50° N, to about 80°. |
| Pages here | 9 objects |
Galaxies
4Nebulae
1Planetary systems
1Stars
3Brightest NGC and IC objects
OpenNGC| Object | Type | Magnitude | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| M31 · NGC 224 (Andromeda Galaxy) | Galaxy | 3.4 | 177.8′ |
| NGC 7686 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 5.6 | 3.6′ |
| NGC 752 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 5.7 | 39′ |
| M32 · NGC 221 | Galaxy | 8.1 | 7.7′ |
| M110 · NGC 205 | Galaxy | 8.2 | 16.2′ |
| NGC 7662 (Copeland's Blue Snowball) | Planetary nebula | 8.3 | 0.3′ |
| NGC 956 (on the map) | Open star cluster | 8.9 | 4.5′ |
| NGC 891 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10 | 13′ |
| NGC 404 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10.6 | 3.4′ |
| NGC 7640 (on the map) | Galaxy | 11 | 8.1′ |
| IC 239 (on the map) | Galaxy | 11.2 | 4.3′ |
| NGC 529 (on the map) | Galaxy | 12.1 | 2.2′ |
Smaller magnitudes are brighter; the faintest stars the eye sees are about 6. The full Moon is about 31′ across.
Data: IAU constellation boundaries (Roman 1987) · OpenNGC (Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data sources & credits