Center of the Andromeda galaxy (M31)

This is the closest giant spiral galaxy - M31 in Andromeda, a mere 2.5 million light years away. It is so big in the sky, that it won't fit into my astrocamera attached to 6" Newtonian telescope. You can see here only the central 16,000 light years (and it's total extent is more like 150,000 light years), including the bright core and very prominent dark dust lanes. My camera is B/W so unfortunately no color. I should redo this with a wider lens like Canon 70-200mm f4L (with my telescope used as a guider) and my Canon crop DSLR - this will both give me a significantly wider field of view, and color. Unfortunately, I'll loose resolution.

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Uploaded on September 25, 2016