By Kevan Hubbard | 2024-02-21
On 02/20/2024 08:30 am by Adeel Shafiq| Taqwa Space Observatory, Bela, Balochistan, Pakistan
Andromeda and Milky Way Galaxies - A new Perspective!
What if Andromeda was on the opposite side of our location in the milky way Galaxy, I think then Andromeda would not be that prominent hidden among the core of our own Galaxy.
Us (solar system) being in the Orion arm of the milky way makes us closer to Andromeda Galaxy for now and in a 100 million years our solar system will be on the opposite side of milky way making it further away.
I always wanted to photograph the Andromeda Galaxy in a way that our home Galaxy was also visible in the same frame. So I decided to go for a wide field shot of the milky way arm along with Andromeda together in the same frame. From one planet to many distant exoplanets, from one solar system to many other star systems, from one star clusters to distant star clusters, from the nebulae of our Galaxy to the nebulae of our neighboring galaxy and from our Galaxy The Milky Way to the Andromeda Galaxy here is an image to see our existence in the universe with a whole new perspective.
You can also see the heart and soul nebula at the top of the milky way arm, some shades of the ghost of Cassiopeia towards the left of the milky way arm and Cederblad 214 nebula towards the right of the milky way core and bubble nebula just below it between Cassiopeia & Cepheus. And last but not the least a meteor entered our atmosphere and luckily got captured in my frame which added to the composition.
Canon Rebel T7, Canon EF 24mm lens, ioptron sky tracker
EXIF:
25 x 120 sec lights, ISO 1600, f/2.8, 24mm
Dark and Bias frames
Applications used: DSS, Starnet++, Graxpert, Siril and PS 23.