Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  35 And  ·  Andromeda Galaxy  ·  M 110  ·  M 31  ·  M 32  ·  NGC 205  ·  NGC 221  ·  NGC 224  ·  The star ν And
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M31 Andromeda Galaxy, Alan Tidey
M31 Andromeda Galaxy
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M31 Andromeda Galaxy

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M31 Andromeda Galaxy, Alan Tidey
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M31 Andromeda Galaxy

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This galaxy is about half as big again as our Milky Way Galaxy being some 150,000 light years in diameter.
It is 2.5 million light years away which means that when the photons left it, we were still apes living in East Africa.
All sessions shot in late 2022 with the same camera and scope being the Askar FMA 180 mm.
I added another session to this in December 2023 and reprocessed everything.

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M31 Andromeda Galaxy, Alan Tidey