02/11/2021
The Andromeda galaxy (M31) and its satellite galaxy M110 (small budge at the right of the main disc).
The Andromeda galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away from Earth and is the nearest galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy. It's estimated to have around 1 trillion stars that are almost double the number of stars in our Milky Way.
The Andromeda and our Milky Way galaxies are expected to collide in the next 4-5 billion years.
This is my second attempt (actually third but the last one failed because of focus and clouds) at capturing DSO from Bortle scale 6 skies. Even now, there is too much light pollution because of the festive season in the country.
Equipment used
Canon EOS 250D with kit zoom lens at 250 mm FL
F/5.6 at 1600 ISO
iOptron SkyGuider pro
No filters
Imaging
100 light frames of 80 seconds each
10 dark frames
24 flat frames
