A deep portrait of our neighbouring galaxy
Wolfgang Paech
The Andromeda Nebula is the most impressive foreign Milky Way in the Earth's sky. At a distance of 2.6 million light years, we are looking at a galaxy that is similar to our own in size and shape. While M 31 is visible to the naked eye as a blurred spot in the dark sky, amateur astronomers with telescopes can resolve numerous individual objects, including stars, open star clusters and globular clusters.
Wolfgang Paech spent three years taking photographs to create an 11-part high-resolution mosaic image of the Andromeda Nebula. The poster shows the mosaic with identifications of over 300 individual objects in M 31, as well as detailed images of the brightest companion galaxies: a magnificently deep portrait of our neighbouring galaxy.
84 cm × 59.5 cm
