Andromeda M31 - 14-hour exposure photo
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31, NGC 224), also known as the Andromeda Nebula, is the brightest galaxy in the northern sky and one of the closest galaxies to our own Milky Way. It can be seen with the naked eye as a faint, hazy spot with an apparent magnitude of 3.4 in the constellation of Andromeda, near the star v Andromedae.