M 31 Andromeda Galaxy
This image was taken with the Tak FS-60c mounted on the top of my LX200 GPS , after many months of frustration with the mount not working properly I was finally able to get the system to work again.. Some where along the way I had changed some settings in Maxim which would not allow the guiding to work properly, after restoring my computer to several months prior with all the old settings I was able to work with it again.
The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Our Galaxy is thought to look much like the Andromeda Galaxy. The diffuse light from the Andromeda Galaxy is caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that compose it. The several distinct stars that surround this image of the Andromeda Galaxy are actually stars in our own Galaxy that are well in front of the background image. The Andromeda Galaxy is frequently referred to as M 31 since it is the 31st object on Messier's list of diffuse sky objects. M 31 is so distant it takes about two million years for light to reach us from there. Much about M31 remains unknown, including why the center contains two nuclei.
updated 09-17-05
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