The Andromeda galaxy is a beautiful and spectacular barred spiral galaxy located approximately 2.5 million light-years away. It is the nearest large galaxy to our own and is bright enough to be visible to the naked eye on a clear moonless night. It is also a rather large celestial object, having an angular length approximately six times that of the full moon.

This image was made with a Nikon Z7 and a Nikon 500mm f/5.6 PF lens at f/5.6. A total of 48 30 second exposures at ISO 1600 were made for a total of 24 minutes of exposure time. Star tracking was with an Astrotrac TT320x. Image stacking was done using the Kappa-Sigma Clipping method on Deep Sky Stacker. Final image processing was done with Capture One.