east sky at nightfall and early evening, then swings upward as evening deepens into late night. In the wee hours before dawn, Cassiopeia is found high over Polaris, the North Star. Note that one half of the W is more deeply notched than the other half. This deeper V is your "arrow" in the sky, pointing to the Andromeda galaxy.
• Remember, on a dark night, this galaxy looks like a faint smudge of light. Once you've found it with the unaided eye or binoculars, try with a telescope - if you have one. The Andromeda galaxy is the nearest large spiral galaxy to our Milky Way. It's about 2.5 million light-years away, teeming with hundreds of billions of stars.
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