Messier 31 (M31), better known as the Andromeda Galaxy, is a large spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda. Lying at a distance of 2.54 million light years from Earth, the Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to our own. It is on a collision course with our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Messier 31 has an apparent magnitude of 3.44. It took me two nights, under a really good sky to get the data and the final photo of this beautiful galaxy. The place where I got the data, is located in the Italian mountains, Valle Po, at 1500 meters. In this photo I'm happy to have managed to preserve the dust of the galactic center.

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