Great Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
Taken by Bill Burnett on July 4, 2016 @
Hamilton, Montana USA
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Date Taken: 2016:07:06 12:39:30
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The Great Andromeda Galaxy (also known as Messier 31 - M31 for short) is about 2.2 million light years from Earth. Even so, if you know where to look, it is
visible to the naked eye as a hazy patch of light. The light captured in this image left the galaxy over 2.2 million years ago!
M31 is the largest neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way - our own galaxy. M32 is its superimposed elliptical companion and NGC 205 is a slightly more distant elliptical galaxy.
This is one of the most spectacular galaxies visible from Earth (other than the Milky Way, of course) and one of my very favorites.
Image captured with a Takahashi Epsilon 130-D Astrograph with Canon 600D cooled DSLR on iOptron ZEQ25 mount (autoguided). Image is composed of 14 90 second subframes (total exposure time of 21 minutes) calibrated with darks, bias and flat frames in PixInsight with final processing in Photoshop CS.
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