Title: Andromeda's Embrace: A Celestial Connection

It’s always a pleasure to visit dark skies and to capture its hidden treasures and beauty. But one can never resist to just have a glimpse of our nearest neighboring galaxy and the Queen of the night sky, the Andromeda Galaxy. Lost in the depths of dark skies, I found myself standing in awe of the breathtaking view of Andromeda & the vast expanse of space stretching out before my eyes, and in that moment, I felt a deep connection to the cosmos like never before as if I could almost reach out to it.
Capturing this celestial beauty was a humbling experience, a reminder of the infinite wonders that exist beyond our own world. 2.5 million light years away from us having a trillion stars within that tiny spot in the whole sky and the brightest external galaxy visible to us. Although we are unable to travel to Andromeda Galaxy at the moment but maybe one day we will be able to reach out to our neighboring galaxy and who knows what we may discover to fulfill our curiosity. Behold the queen of the deep sky, The Andromeda Galaxy.

Background Story: Me and my good friend and one of the most creative and finest astroimager of the country Muhammad Ibraheem wanted to capture a foreground with a deep sky object (DSO) and what other DSO could be better than Andromeda Galaxy. For this we surveyed the hills surrounding Taqwa Space Observatory and found a spot over a hill where Andromeda Galaxy would be exactly above it making it possible to capture a foreground and it was Ibraheem who suggested that I climb up that hill and point in the direction of Andromeda Galaxy.

Credits:
M. Ibraheem
Adeel Shafiq ©️

Equipment: Canon Rebel T7, Samyang 135mm, f2.2
Ioptron sky tracker legacy series

EXIF:
Image category: composite/blend

Both the foreground and the sky are shot with same focal length and blended together and then cropped.
Sky: 61 x 60 seconds lights, ISO 1600, f/2.8 @135mm
Dark and Bias frames
Applications used: DSS, Siril, gradient xterminator, graxpert and PS 23.
Foreground: shot during twilight ISO 1600, f5.6, 1/250 seconds