SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
lotalmen
Location of Photo:
Ciutadella de Menorca (Spain)
Date/Time of photo:
23th of July 2022
Equipment:
Rig : Samyang 135mm F2 lenses at F3.4 - EQ6 R- QHY178M - QHYCCD 3rd generation 7 position filter wheel / Software: PHD2 Guiging - Sequence Generator Pro - DeepSkyStacker - Adobe Photoshop CC2015 - Annie's astro actions - Astronomy tools – Starnett++ - Pixinsight Ripley 1.8
Description:
Andromeda is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way. Our galaxy is thought to closely resemble the Andromeda galaxy. These two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. Andromeda's diffuse light is caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that make it up. The various stars surrounding the image of Andromeda are often referred to as M31, as it is object 31 on Messier's list of diffuse celestial objects. M31 is so distant that light takes about two million light-years to reach us. There is a lot about M31 that is unknown, for example how the strange two-peaked center formed. Although visible unaided, this image of M31 was made with a standard camera through a small telescope. This photo was taken during the night 23th of Julyr, 2022 from one of my favorite places in Menorca (Spain), the Talayotic town of Torrellafuda in Ciutadella. A total of 6 hours aprox of exposure make up this beautiful image. I've used Astronomik 6 nm Ha, L1 and deep sky RGB filters.
