[Steely Tom]

Lotta hot stuff in that picture.

If you could see Andromeda by eye (it’s too dim, unfortunately) its long axis would be about six times the apparent size of the moon.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

If you are somewhere away from city lights and have clear skys you can see it. It is not clearly a galaxy, but looks like a smudge or cloud in the sky. I can't see it where I live now, but I could see it when I visited my parents in Wisconsin. (MtnClimber, can you see it where you are in Colorado?)

Here is a picture of the night sky.

https://earthsky.org/tonight/find-the-andromeda-galaxy-in-autumn/

A brighter Andromeda would look like this:

https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-andromeda-would-look-night-if-it-were-brighter/

[Nateman]