An ExtraGalactic Traveler's™ View of M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy - Including a View From Earth

by Alan Brunelle

Equipment: William Optics Fluorostar 91 / FLT91, QHYCCD QHY268 C

Edit 3/18/2026: Uploaded a revision with higher saturation. No change to the color balance overall. Just what SPCC gave me. The full stars "Earth View" as the mouse-over. These two uploads are full-sized .png files. This image from a small refractor does support a decent amount of zooming in and the 2X dither helped a lot. But my happiest outcome of this image is not the color, not the idea of…