The Andromeda Galaxy (also known as M31, or NGC 224 and often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula) is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It is the nearest spiral galaxy to our own, the Milky Way. As it is visible as a faint smudge on a moonless night, it is one of the farthest objects visible to the naked eye, and can be seen even from urban areas with binoculars.

Images by Leigh Slomer

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Image by Leigh Slomer Stacked from 30 x 2 minute light frames at ISO 1600 with 20 dark and 64 flat frames. Taken using a Skywatcher Evostar 72ed Pro telescope, a Canon Eos 250d astro modified dslr and a CLS filter. Mounted on a Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro mount, unguided. Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker and processed in GIMP.

Images by Simon Dawes

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Images by Julian Tworek

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Julian Tworek M31 Image

Images by Martin Crow

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Kelling Heath 2012 M31 Martin Crow

Images by Honor Wheeler

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Images by Janice McClean

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