Easily visible to the naked eye on a clear night is the Milky Way's great neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. Well over a degree in length, it is seen in the telescope as a large, bright, fuzzy, oval nucleus with a dimmer band of light around it, giving it a spiral shape. Detail in the arms is hard to see. The bottom of the bright central portion appears to be cut off by a dust lane.
In the same field of view is M-32, its small elliptical companion (NGC-205, another companion just below the bottom of this sketch, is listed separately.) M-32 is an egg-shaped, shimmering object with a starlike nucleus.
| NGC: | 224 | 221 |
| OTHER NAMES: | M-31, The Andromeda Galaxy | M-32 |
| CLASS: | spiral galaxy | dwarf elliptical galaxy |
| SIZE: | 160' x 40' | 2' x 3' |
| MAGNITUDE: | +4 | +9 |
| POSITION: | 00h 39m +40d 43' | 00h 41m +41d 07' |
| CONSTELLATION: | Andromeda | |
| DATE OF SKETCH: | 09/03/75 and 09/14/75 | |
| MAGNIFICATION USED: | 40x, 70x | |
