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Superb image of the Andromeda Galaxy M31 and its small elliptical companions

M32 and M110 from

an anonymous source

The inner part of the Andromeda Galaxy Messier 31 (NGC 224), from a

red-light CCD image taken with the Lowell Observatory 1.1m telescope

and focal reducer. The area shown is 9 arcminutes on a side (about

6500 light-years (2000 parsecs) at the distance of M31). The bright

nucleus is apparent, recently shown to be in fact double

as well as the possible site of a massive black hole. The focal reducer

produces strongly comatic images (radially stretched) near the corners

of the field. Hodge’s Atlas of the Andromeda Galaxy lists several

catalogued globular clusters in this field; the brightest are G185 at pixel

coordinates 216, 265; G189 at 165, 163; and G177 at 297, 294. A few of

the inner dust clouds also appear, mainly north of the nucleus (the near

side of the galaxy).

Credit: Bill Keel,

University of Alabama

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  M31 image captured from Usenet

  

  

  This image was obtained by Sven Kohle, Till Credner, and

  T. Fritz of

  Bonn, Germany

  on November 6, 1995 at 23:40 UT with the 30-cm astrograph of the Hoher List

  observatory, with a 2048×2048 CCD camera, exposed 5 minutes thru H-alpha filter.

  Click on the image to see it in full size.

  The image is copyrighted by the observers.

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  Last Modification: 1 Jul 1998, 22:10 MET