M31, the Great Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest large galaxy to our home galaxy, the Milky Way. It is "only" about 2.2 million lights years away. Some dark dust lanes are visible in this image. The small fuzzy spot to M31's upper right is M110, a smaller companion galaxy to M31.
• Date: September 8,
2002
• Exposure: 60 minutes + 60 minutes
• Lens: 200 mm Olympus @ f/8
• Guiding: SBIG STV
• Camera: Olympus OM-1
• Film: Kodak Supra 400 (not hypered)
• Scanned: Hewlett Packard S20
• Processing:
Two images combined in Registar. Adjusted curves in Adobe Photoshop 6.