# Andromeda Galaxy on SpaceSphere

> The nearest large spiral galaxy to our own, and bright enough to pick out with the naked eye even from a town.

Canonical: https://spacesphere.sygnito.com/en/universe/andromeda-galaxy

Galaxy

The nearest large spiral galaxy to our own, and bright enough to pick out with the naked eye even from a town.

## Facts

- **Position**: 10.68479, 41.26906 (Source: NASA Extragalactic Database)
- **Brightness**: about 3.44 (Source: SIMBAD Astronomical Database)
- **Apparent size**: about 177.83 x 69.66 arcminutes (Source: HyperLeda)
- **Shape**: Sb (Source: HyperLeda)
- **Constellation**: Andromeda (Source: OpenNGC)

## Catalogue designations

NGC0224, M31, 2MASX J00424433+4116074, IRAS 00400+4059, MCG +07-02-016, PGC 002557, UGC 00454

Source: OpenNGC

## Can you see it tonight?

The page works this out in the visitor's browser, from their own location, and the answer is a prediction rather than an observation. It is not part of this file.

## Sources

- This research has made use of the [NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database](https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/), which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology.
- This research has made use of the [SIMBAD database](https://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/), operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France.
- We acknowledge the usage of the HyperLeda database (http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr).
- [OpenNGC](https://github.com/mattiaverga/OpenNGC), Mattia Verga, licensed [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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