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Galaxies M31 CORE |  | (CLICK REFRESH ON YOUR BROWSER IF IT DOESN'T APPEAR)
Equipment and exposition:
GSO RC 8"
ATIK 314L with Atik Filter USB wheel, Astronomik Filters 31,8
Guided with Orion ST 80 with Starshoot Autoguider
NEQ6 Geoptik Modded
1h bin 1x (L) 1h bin 2x (RGB)
Site: Val Troncea (Pragelato, Turin Italy)
FULL SIZE
About this object:
The center of the Andromeda galaxy is beautiful but strange. Andromeda, indexed as M31, is so close to our own Milky Way Galaxy that it gives a unique perspective into galaxy composition by allowing us to see into its core. Billions of stars swarm around a center that has two nuclei and likely houses a supermassive black hole over 5 million times the mass of our Sun. M31 is about two million light years away and visible with the unaided eye towards the constellation of Andromeda, the princess. Pictured above, dark knots of dust are seen superposed on the inner 10,000 light years of M31's core. The brighter stars are foreground stars located in our Milky Way Galaxy.
Fonte : Apod |
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