About Image:

The Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) is the closest major spiral galaxy to the Milky Way. Located about 2.5 million light-years away in the Andromeda constellation, it is roughly 220,000 light-years across and contains around 1 trillion stars. It is the most distant object visible to the naked eye.Andromeda is speeding toward the Milky Way at roughly 110 kilometers per second. In about 4.5 billion years, the two galaxies will collide and merge into a single, giant galaxy

Equipment & Details:

Optics: Orion 8” inch 3.9f Newtonian astrograph with 2" MPCC Mark III coma corrector

Camera: Canon 60D DSLR unmoddified

Mount: Celestron AVX

Guiding: Orion starshoot autoguider 60mm guide scope

Date: September 2022

Location: Clarksdale Missouri

Exposures: Lights-266 ISO-1250 with 4-minutes subs, total 17 hours 44 minutes Four frame mosiac

Processing: Pixlnsight, Photoshop CS5