Messier 31 ldquo;The Andromeda Galaxyrdquo;br/ Date: Imaged 1 September 2019 (12:27 am, 11:44 pm)br/ Location: Smileys Provincial Park, NSbr/ Equipment: Orion 80mm f6 ED-triplet refractor/ Canon EOS Rebel T3 camera; prime focus, unguided; ISO-3200, 60 sec exposure/EQ6-R mount.br/ Processing: 124 subs and 20 darks were captured over 2 nights as RAW16/CR2 images and converted to TIF images, which were then stacked usingDeepSkyStacker without any other adjustments to the stacked image. Photoshop CS2 was used to adjust levels, curves (stretching data), and color balance/saturation, as well as for noise reduction.StarTools was used for gradient removal. Microsoft Photo was used to tweak clarity, contrast, highlights, shadows, and exposure of the final jpg image.br/ Comments: Messier 31 is a large spiral galaxy that is also known as the Andromeda Galaxy due to its location in the constellation Andromeda. The dwarf elliptical satellite galaxies Messier 32 (middle right) and Messier 110 (upper left) are also visible in the image. Messier 31, at 2.5 million light years from Earth, is the nearest major galaxy to our own galaxy and the most distant object that is visible to the naked eye.