M-31 (NGC-224) Commonly called The Andromeda Galaxy. It is an inclined barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Andromeda. It is the nearest neighbor of our Milky Way galaxy, lying at a distance of 2.5 million light years from Earth. It is over 160,000 light years in diameter and contains over 1 trillion stars. Also visible in the image are its two companion galaxies, M-32 (to the upper left of M-31's nucleus, and M-110, located below and to the right.
This image was acquired over 2 nights, the 11th and 12th of November, 2025, and is a 5 hour 32 minute integration of 2 minute exposures. The imaging scope is a 92mm f/5.5 Apochromatic Refractor and the imaging camera is a ZWO 2600MC Pro 26 megapixel CMOS one-shot color camera. Acquired and captured using N.I.N.A. Guided by PHD2, integrated and processed using PixInsight and post-processed using PhotoShop 2025, Levels, Curves, Gradient Xterminator and Noise Xterminator.