Last Thursday night we stayed up until 1:00 a.m., imaging a couple of galaxies. Galaxies aren't as colorful as the nebulas.
The first image is of Andromeda Galaxy. It is the nearest major galaxy to our own Millky Way Galaxy, a "mere" 2.5 million light-years from Earth. It always amazes me to think about how long ago the light that we capture with our telescope left its source!
And the second galaxy we imaged that same night was the Triangulum Galaxy. The sky conditions weren't as good by the time we did this one, and the image quality suffers from that, I think.
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