[LibWhacker]

Here's one of my favorite pics of Andromeda -- by an amateur with a relatively small scope.
Here in the suburbs of Sacramento, it's not visible with the naked eye (or is it just my aging
eyes?) but you can easily see it with binoculars.

[petuniasevan]

No, it's probably not you. Sacto's urban skyglow washes out the sky most of the way to Chico (I used to live there).