SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
Gigi
Location of Photo:
Medicine Rock State Park
Date/Time of photo:
8-01-2022 at 8:37PM
Equipment:
Optics: Celestron Nexstar Evolution 9.25 235mm f/10 Schmidth Cassegrain Telescope Mount: Sky Watcher EQ-6R PRO Computerized Equatorial Mount - S30300 Camera: ZWO - ASI2600MCPRO Starizona Hyperstar 4 HS4-C925 ZWO AsiAir Pro Wifi Camera Controller ZWO Standard Electronic Automatic Focuser EAF-5V Optolong L-Pro 2” Multiband Pass Filter
Description:
The amazing galaxy is M31, my first love. M31 or Andromeda galaxy, or Messier 31, or NGC 224 and is orginally Andromeda Nebula. It is in the constellation of Andromeda. This galaxy is 2.537 million light years from Earth. It is the nearest major galactic neighbor to the Milky Way and of course it is visible from Earth’s Southern Hemisphere due to it brightness. It has a diameter of 220,000 light years, and its mass is equal to 1,230 billion suns. As scientists predicted this galaxy will eventually colide with our home galaxy the Milky Way in about 5 billion years. The recent measurement of the halo that the collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies shows that it already started.
