When will i see Andromeda?

[Astorix]

Evening all,

just wondering, when abouts in the year can i expect to see the Andromeda galaxy? I live right near the sea so everything SE,S and SW for me is pretty dark!

[Doc]

Just looked on CduC and from the Midlands around midnight it will be 36° altitude in August.

[Astorix]

Thanks Mick, I can wait till august!

I will be getting my scope in two weeks and was wondering, what will be clearly visible in a SW 130p atm?

[Doc]

ATM I would say the biggest object will be M13. Then you have Saturn, M57, Alberio, all those open clusters in Cygnus, and then Cassieopia is coming up loads to look at in this constellation.

[brianb]

You're looking at about the worst possible time .... just after it goes dark M31 is very low in the north west, it's still low in the north east when it starts coming light again. Practically overhead at midnight September/October; you can look high in the north east just before dawn from late July on if you can't wait that long.