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The constellation Andromeda showing the bright stars and surrounding constellations. Andromeda is surrounded by (going clockwise from the top) Cassiopeia, Lacerta, Pegasus, Pisces, Aries, Triangulum and Perseus. The brightest star in Andromeda (Alpheratz) is in the lower part of the constellation. Together with three stars in Pegasus it forms the asterism known as the "Great Square of Pegasus". The next two bright stars in the constellation (Mirach and Almach) form a line extending north-east from Alpheratz.
Andromeda is a northern constellation and is most visible in the evenings in the Northern Hemisphere autumn. It is visible from all of the Northern Hemisphere and most temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere but is not visible from Antarctic and Subantarctic regions.
The most famous object in Andromeda, the Andromeda Galaxy is marked here with a red ellipse and its Messier catalog number M31.
The yellow circle on the left marks the position of the open cluster NGC 752 and the green circle on the right marks NGC 7662 (the blue snowball nebula), a planetary nebula.
The y-axis of this diagram is in degrees of declination and with north as up and the x-axis is in hours of right ascension with east to the left. The sizes of the stars marked here relate to the star's apparent magnitude, a measure of its apparent brightness. The larger dots represent brighter stars. The Greek letters mark the brightest stars in the constellation. These are ranked by brightness with the brightest star being labeled alpha, the second brightest beta, etc., although this ordering is not always followed exactly.
Credit: Adapted by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education from the original by IAU/Sky & Telescope.
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Related glossary terms:
Apparent Magnitude
, Constellation
, Declination
, Planetary Nebula
, Right Ascension (RA)
, অ্যান্ড্রোমিডা
, অ্যান্ড্রোমিডা ছায়াপথ
, মুক্ত স্তবক
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In Other Languages
ইংলিশ: Andromeda Constellation MapPortuguese BR: Mapa da Constelação de Andrômeda
ইটালিয়ান: Mappa della costellazione di Andromeda
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