Look to the night sky for Autumn Dipper often mistaken for the Big Dipper

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[JoeProBono]

High overhead around the 8 p.m. local standard time is a bright configuration of stars that people unfamiliar with the sky often mistake for the Big Dipper. Big it is, but — at least in an official sense — a dipper it is not.

This large figure is not usually described as a dipper in most stargazing guides;

The Autumn Dipper, in fact, looks like a much larger and brighter version of the Little Dipper.

[JoeProBono]

The enormous dipper composed of stars from Pegasus, Andromeda, and Perseus takes up a good chunk of the sky. From midnorthern latitudes in early November, you will see this formation overhead in the evenings. The southwest horizon is below the bottom edge of this image.

[JoeProBono]

[GOP Poet]

Coo-el! ;-)

[JoeProBono]

The Autumn Dipper? A Flying Horse?

[DManA]

If you look on that star map, draw a line from the star Mirach to the red label +Zenith. About half way along that line and a little above it is a kind of smudge.

That is the Andromeda galaxy. The most distant thing you can see with your naked eye.

[Ciexyz]

Beauty of the Heavens bump.

[ml/nj]

I've been interested in the sky for nearly 60 years. I've never heard of the Autumn Dipper.

ML/NJ

[JoeProBono]

“That is the Andromeda galaxy. The most distant thing you can see with your naked eye.”

The most distant thing I can see with the naked eye is the tip of my nose.

[ml/nj]

I should add that the thing that MSNBC calls the Autumn Dipper is really the Great Square of Pegasus augmented.

ML/NJ

[JoeProBono]

“I’ve been interested in the sky for nearly 60 years. I’ve never heard of the Autumn Dipper.”

Neither have I. Wonder where it’s been all these years>

[JoeProBono]

"I should add that the thing that MSNBC calls the Autumn Dipper is really the Great Square of Pegasus augmented."

[relee]

Hmmm, looks a lot like the great square of Pegasus.

[JoeProBono]

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[SunkenCiv]

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