[RightWhale]

Even with the sky as bad as it has gotten, M31 is still visible, barely, to the naked eye even when the Milky Way is washed out and stars dimmer than mag 4 are invisible. That's funny when you think we are inside the Milky Way and M31 is a million lightyears away. It's easy to spot once you have the route marked out starting from the Great Square of Pegasus.

[petuniasevan]

million light-years away

Actually, about 2.2 million light-years.