SUNSET: 
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Photographer:
Jon Greif
Location of Photo:
Alpine, CA, USA
Date/Time of photo:
August 29-30, 2024, between 10 pm and 3 am PDT
Equipment:
SeeStar S50 "smart" Scope and Pixinsight post-processing.
Description:
It's the Andromeda Galaxy's time of the year...visible all night long. Although several dozen minor galaxies lie closer to our Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy (AKA M31, or Messier 31), at 2.5 million light-years away, is the closest large spiral galaxy, and the most distant thing we can see with the unaided eye -- you'll need a dark sky, though (e.g. a moonless night in Alpine).
