+Brian Clark thank you. I do what I can to simplify this hobby. hopefully my efforts help to retain more beginners and expedite their learning curve. eventually I will move into more advanced content, but for now, I think that the community benefits to gain membership and get more people interested in understanding and observing the night sky.
Depending on how dark your skies are but it's pretty easy to find just go up from the tip of the Triangle towards Andromeda.I had it,I think, naked eye on Monday/Tuesday in Bortle 2 skies and using my 2x40 Helios wide field binoculars I got it no problem.I fruitful night for just naked eye objects as I got Uranus too naked eye.
guys, there is a better method to find this object, just locate the triangulum constelation (literally a triangle shape, visible even in high light poluted areas), follow the top star of the triangle named "metallah" move up ( 2-3 degrees) and the 2nd brightest star wull encounter is HR 485, move up like 2-3 degrees again and ull find m33... :) nice video btw!
Harry, thanks for the comments. I am trying to help people to start from the very beginning of their astronomy journey, so I try to keep the number of "starting object" points to jump off of down to a minimum. For example, the Great Square of Pegasus, The Big Dipper, Leo the Lion, and Orion are amazing guideposts in the night sky that are big, bright, and easily found by most people. I agree that Triangulum constellation may seem like an easier point to start with to the trained eye, but in order to make sure I'm providing a lower point of entry for beginners, I am looking at this from a more systematic approach. Basically, by teaching 4-6 guideposts we can find everything in the night sky. Hopefully that makes sense. - Dave
@@CosmosSafari I get it, and i realy appreciate your work, im just sayin though, following the triangulum constelation path might be easier for some people out there. :)
@@xarhsify That's exactly why I ask at the end of my videos for people to share their different versions of getting to these places in the sky. All points of view and methods are valued. Just trying to explain my rationale for taking a few more steps in some of my videos, even if I would not necessarily use all of the steps myself.
Nice. I enjoyed the video Dave. 1 Critique: At the (4:45) mark "three of the stars found in the constellation PERSEUS." Oops! I know you meant to say Pegasus. Maybe it can be fixed?
That is what it looks like. To see colours you need to do astrophotography. I have heard that sometimes people can see a tiny bit of colour with a large aperture telescope and binoviewers, but I'm not sure if I believe them... Our eyes are not very good at seeing colours in low light situations. That is why at night everything looks black and white...
@@Mandragara the larger the aperture the more photons are captured, the more photons captured equates to a brighter more detailed visual image. That’s why limited magnitude differs for telescopes of various apertures.
@@MrGChuff I agree that you get a bigger nebula with the same surface brightness, but you never increase the surface brightness of the nebula. Same reason that a wall stays the same brightness as you move towards and away from it.
