The Talking Dog

"The amazing part is not that the dog talks well, it's that he talks at all."

 

The nucleus of the Andromeda Galaxy imaged with a point-n-shoot digital camera.

 

Our "nearby" neighboring galaxy Andromeda contains a mind staggering trillion stars, but "only" a billion or so are in the nucleus region imaged above. It took 2.5 million years for the light from that galaxy to reach my camera lens, or our eyes - this is the only naked eye galaxy in the Northern Hemisphere. On a very clear night even to my old eyes it looks like a small glowing cloud.

 

Virtually all the stars we see at night, including the ones in this photo, are part of the Milky Way, our galaxy.

 

Scotch Mount

Canon A85

f4.8

ISO400

15 sec per exposure

fl 16.2mm (35mm film equivalent: 105mm)

 

18 images, stacked

 

Done