By Kevan Hubbard | 2025-10-11
Silver Sliver Galaxy in Andromeda 27 million ly away
On 10/09/2025 01:00 am by Andy Dungan | Website | Near Cotopaxi, Colorado USA
My taking this image was inspired by another EarthSky poster. Sometime in the last month or so they took a wider field image that included the Silver Sliver. I decided to try and zoom in a bit. Thank you to everyone that posts on EarthSky. It is all part of the adventure. Pics were taken from 10/3 through 10/9. It’s also cool to realize there is more in the Andromeda Constellation than just the Andromeda Galaxy. And it is 27 million light years away! It is also a perfect example of an edge-on view meaning you are looking at the galaxy sideways. Seems that galaxies can be flat (in the bigger perspective).
ASI585MC Pro g252, AskarV@600f7.5, 87 UVIR 10min pics (14.5 hours) exposure,
61 AskarC1 10min pics (10.17 hours) exposure, +darks/biases/flats
AM5/ASIair+, EAF, Askar OAG with ASI174mini for guiding
PixInsight 100%.
This is one of the first times I have combined data using regular camera pics (UVIR) and data from a filter, in this case the Askar C1. Combining the images from both using the image blend capability in PI did seem to help.