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Originally Posted by closetgeek
I am going to have to go to storage and pull out that book with the page number. In the chapter on naked eye astronomy it plainly states that Andromeda is viewable with the naked eye in NYC.
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Regardless of what the book says, I'd be amazed if you could see M31 with the naked eye from most locations in NYC (unless it was written in 1842). Maybe during a blackout.
Star-charts are the way to learn the sky, especially the constellations. After a while, you won't have to "star-hop" to find objects like M31 - you can just look up at the sky and see it (or at least know exactly where it is if the sky is haze- or light-polluted).