Comments on: The Top 4 Autumn Constellations

By: blah blah

blah blah — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:49:20 +0000

i really agree with your saying cauze these people are so wrong i go to school and they better go back cauze there WRONG!!!! i think i made my point!

By: BethanyCox

BethanyCox — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:58:48 +0000

Yikes…looks like this wasn’t my best article in more ways than one. The error has been fixed. Thanks!

By: BethanyCox

BethanyCox — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:57:33 +0000

Thanks, starfinderhero. It appears my sources aren’t as accurate as I hoped. Would it be accurate to say that Andromedae is the brightest star in the constellation Andromeda? I’m new to astronomy & still trying to learn, so I really appreciate your help.

By: theboss

theboss — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:27:17 +0000

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I know, I know, I know !!!
It’s four. She said four in the title.
That’s what she meant to do, only said five by mistake.
Four. Definately four.

By: CONSTELLATION_COUNTER

CONSTELLATION_COUNTER — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:41:39 +0000

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not only that, but she said she was going to talk about five constellations, but wrote only of four. is it four or five i wonder…..which could it be?

By: starfinderhero

starfinderhero — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:30:46 +0000

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Well…… not… quite….. correct.
Andromedae is not the brightest star in the Andromeda galaxy, as you wrote above. Andromedae, the star, is in the constellation Andromeda, is in the Milky Way galaxy (not in the Andromeda galaxy), and is 44 light-years from us.
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The Andromeda galaxy is 2.2 million light-years away, and has no individual stars visible outside the hazy glow of the oblong spiral. The Andromeda galaxy is the only object in the sky visible to the unaided eye that is not in the Milky Way galaxy. Very dark skies are required to see the Andromeda galaxy without at least binoculars if not a telescope.