Daily Telescope: A closer look at the most-distant object visible to the naked eye
Enlarge / The Andromeda Galaxy, as seen from The Milky Way Galaxy. (credit: Kevin Chernoff)
Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light-a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We'll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we'll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder.
Good morning. It is October 25, and today's image features one of the most photogenic galaxies from Earth's vantage point-the Andromeda Galaxy.
This photo was captured by an astrophotographer named Kevin Chernoff using a 6-inch reflector telescope on a tracking mount. According to Chernoff, this was an astrophotography-modified, mirrorless camera without any special filters. "It is about two and a half hours of total exposure time across 300 individual frames, stacked and processed together," he said. "It was shot from a dark roadside location about an hour away from my home."