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M 31, the Andromeda Galaxy, 18 minutes of exposure, color filter, Celestron RASA 11 279/620 F 2/2 telescope, ZWO camera ASI071C on Paramount ME II mount by iTelescope.net, processing with Pixinsight and Photoshop. The Andromeda Galaxy (sometimes known by the old name Great Andromeda Nebula or by the catalog abbreviations M 31 and NGC 224) is a large barred spiral galaxy that is about 2.538 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Andromeda, from which it takes its name. It is the largest galaxy closest to ours, the Milky Way; It is also visible to the naked eye and is among the farthest objects visible without the aid of instruments.
The Andromeda Galaxy is the largest of the Local Group, a group of galaxies that also includes the Milky Way and the Triangulum Galaxy, plus about fifty other smaller galaxies, many of them satellites of the main ones.