Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Pisces (Psc)  ·  Contains:  IC 1653  ·  NGC 443  ·  PGC 2034154
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Andromeda II dwarf spheroidal galaxy (PGC 4601, lowenthalm
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Andromeda II dwarf spheroidal galaxy (PGC 4601

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)
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Andromeda II dwarf spheroidal galaxy (PGC 4601, lowenthalm
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Andromeda II dwarf spheroidal galaxy (PGC 4601

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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This is a mostly a sciency picture, and not too pretty. I have an ongoing project to observe as many of the local group galaxies that I can from the northern hemisphere. At the center of the image is Andromeda II (PGC 4601), a dwarf spheroidal galaxy bound in orbit around the Andromeda Galaxy. Its a bit like the Leo I dwarf (https://www.astrobin.com/421352/) orbiting our own Milky Way Galaxy, looking rather like a faint globular cluster, but quite a bit more distant at 2.2 million light years away.

Just a few stars are resolved from the overall haze. Seeing was good but not great, but it was a dark sky site, so that helped a lot. Little NGC 443 also peaks in at the upper right corner as do many small PGC galaxies pepper the region. I think that with a little work I should be able to resolve stars so it might be worth trying again under better seeing conditions at bin 1 instead of bin2.

The glow at the bottom right is 6th magnitude star HR 371, just out of the field of view.

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