A very beautiful edge-on spiral galaxy in constellation Andromeda.

It is only 30 million light years away and belongs to the Local Supercluster. With a diameter of about 150000 light years it is among the largest known galaxies.
It is currently not really galaxy season … but as my principle target was settling below the horizon and there was just an hour left before the fog would terminate the session, I tried this … with a 40% low moon, no filter and full RASA power …
Swipe to zoom out. It is a field with hundreds of galaxies much further away as NGC 898, NGC 909, NGC 909, NGC 910 – 914 as the brightest and many others with PGC numbers or even not listed in these catalogues. Swipe to the end to see an annotated version.
Furthermore at least two traces from asteroids traveling across this image can be identified.

Celestron RASA 11 v2
Celestron CGX-L mount
RisingCam ATR3CMOS26000KPA
Optolong UV/IR Cut filter
Bortle 4-5
40% moon

120x30sec (1h)

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