The Andromeda Galaxy (M31, NGC 224) is the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way, located about 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda.
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31, NGC 224) is the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way, located about 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It is a large spiral galaxy, with a disk spanning roughly 200,000 light-years or more, making it substantially larger than our own galaxy. Seen from Earth at a steep inclination rather than face-on, M31 displays sweeping dust lanes across its disk and a bright central bulge, and is one of the few galaxies visible to the naked eye as a faint smudge under dark skies. Its satellite galaxies M32 and M110 are typically visible in the same wide-field frame. M31 and the Milky Way are gravitationally bound and expected to merge in roughly four to five billion years.
[Source: Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy]
[Source: Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy]
M31 The Andromeda Galaxy
Exposure 166@ 300 sec sub frames
ISO 1600
Camera Nikon D800 [7360 x 4912]
Optics Prime focus of a 10" Meade SCT f/10, 2500 mm focal length on a Celestron CGEM DX mount.
Location Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia.
Date 2018-10-14
Processing Captured using the camera intervalometer. Processed in Pixinsight and tweaked in Lightroom.
Exposure 166@ 300 sec sub frames
ISO 1600
Camera Nikon D800 [7360 x 4912]
Optics Prime focus of a 10" Meade SCT f/10, 2500 mm focal length on a Celestron CGEM DX mount.
Location Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia.
Date 2018-10-14
Processing Captured using the camera intervalometer. Processed in Pixinsight and tweaked in Lightroom.
