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© Paschalis Bartzoudis 2009

M31, the great galaxy in Andromeda


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Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106ED -Mount: Takahashi EM200 Temma II Jr -Camera: Canon 350D Baader modified with Hutech IDAS LPS -Exposure: 5 hours total (124 sub-exposures stacked) -FOV: 93.79% of the original frame

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© Paschalis Bartzoudis 2009

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Approximately 2.6 million light years away from our solar

neighborhood, the great Andromeda galaxy is the nearest great galaxy.

M31, as it is usually referred, has a disk diameter of over 250,000

light years, double as large as Milky Way. Its mass was estimated at

300 to 400 billion times that of the Sun.

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The numbers are incredible, there's no Earth scale for comparison.But when it comes to images it's the ABSOLUTE beauty.No technical details to talk about, no controversials.Best regards and happy the new year.

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I once dabbled in astronomy building my own 6 inch Newtonian reflector so I can appreciate what has to be done to get such a great photo. Beautiful job.l
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