A single telescope field can show scores of very distant galaxies, each one a tiny fuzzy patch. In that regard, the Andromeda Galaxy is November's choicest target. Look first toward the southeast and about half way up the sky for the Great Square of the constellation Pegasus. Find the leftmost star of the square and sweep to the second set of two stars marked on the accompanying star chart. The distribution of such galaxies is not uniform.
Astronomers find clumps of galaxies tied together by loose bonds of gravitation.
They travel together like celestial wayfarers. The universe IS lumpy, dang it. The Milky Way travels in a clump called the Local Group, a sparse collection of 30 or so galaxies. The LG is a poor galactic cluster indeed compared to the richness of more distant groupings, which can contain thousands of galaxies. The LG galaxies are scattered like dust over a three- dimensional void 5 million light years on a side.