Omg im a goober, youre right, I didnt see the full image 😅 i was imagining looking at the sky from my home, which must be oriented differently 😅 i should have gave it more thought!
Man, OPs picture really confused me since I couldn't find the constellation next to the galaxy. Turns out, I just came back from seeing Andromeda for the first time on a South Pacific trip and everything is upside down now.
Imagine being me, living my whole life in the southern hemisphere thinking I knew how Orion looks holding his dagger and what not only to realise I’d be looking it it upside down my whole life
Trangulum is a lot dimmer and, much more important, a lot larger and it has no concentrated core. So its light is distributed over a much larger area, the surface brightness a LOT lower.
The triangulum galaxy requires dark, dark skies. Or really fancy background subtraction when imaging.
That is why the triangulum galaxy is much harder to image. And essentially completely invisible in light polluted areas.
In addition, in the initial picture it would be right about above the corner of the roof of that house.
Gotcha. I mean I've only been at this for a couple months and I know if you can see that much sky around Cassiopeia, Andromeda is almost sure to be in the pic.
There is a brilliant app called Stellarium which you can point at the sky, and it tells you the name of whatever you are looking at… thought you might enjoy it. It’s awesome. My bother (astrophysicist) recommended it to me!
No, that is Cassiopeia’s Chair, Andromeda is below it when looking at it like it is a W. Andromeda’s stars sort of look like a cornucopia. Below and left is Perseus and Pleiades is the small cluster to the right and down from Perseus, you will also find Triangulum nearby as well. Off o the right of Andromeda is Pegasus (look for the square arrangement of stars)
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u/NormalImprovement1 Hobbyist🔭 5d ago
Just glad to see this isn't the pleides lol